CVE-2013-0313

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    CVE-2013-0313

    Published: 22 Feb 2013Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: The evm_update_evmxattr function in security/integrity/evm/evm_crypto.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.5, when the Extended Verification Module (EVM) is enabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an attempted removexattr operation on an inode of a sockfs filesystem.

    References: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a67adb997419fb53540d4a4f79c6471c60bc69b6, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=913266, http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a67adb997419fb53540d4a4f79c6471c60bc69b6, http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.7.5, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/20/16

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High