CVE-2013-2147

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    CVE-2013-2147

    Published: 7 Jun 2013Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: The HP Smart Array controller disk-array driver and Compaq SMART2 controller disk-array driver in the Linux kernel through 3.9.4 do not initialize certain data structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via (1) a crafted IDAGETPCIINFO command for a /dev/ida device, related to the ida_locked_ioctl function in drivers/block/cpqarray.c or (2) a crafted CCISS_PASSTHRU32 command for a /dev/cciss device, related to the cciss_ioctl32_passthru function in drivers/block/cciss.c.

    References: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1166.html, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1994-1, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1996-1, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1997-1, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1999-1, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2015-1, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2016-1, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2017-1, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2020-1, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2023-1, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2050-1, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=971242, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.html, http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/6/3/127, http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/6/3/131, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/05/25

    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
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