UBUNTU-CVE-2013-6763

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UBUNTU-CVE-2013-6763

Summary:

Details: The uio_mmap_physical function in drivers/uio/uio.c in the Linux kernel before 3.12 does not validate the size of a memory block, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly gain privileges via crafted mmap operations, a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-4511.

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-6763, https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.12.bz2, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/7314e613d5ff9f0934f7a0f74ed7973b903315d1, http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7314e613d5ff9f0934f7a0f74ed7973b903315d1, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/04/22, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/12/1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2064-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2065-1, 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-2013-6763