UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4514

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4514

    Published: 12 Nov 2013Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2013-4514
    Aliases:
    USN-2066-1
    USN-2067-1
    USN-2068-1

    Summary:

    Details: Multiple buffer overflows in drivers/staging/wlags49_h2/wl_priv.c in the Linux kernel before 3.12 allow local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability and providing a long station-name string, related to the (1) wvlan_uil_put_info and (2) wvlan_set_station_nickname functions.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-4514, https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b5e2f339865fb443107e5b10603e53bbc92dc054, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2066-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2067-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2068-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2069-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2070-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2071-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2072-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2073-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2074-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2075-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2076-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4514

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.12.0-2.5

    Affected versions

    3.11.0-12.19

    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