CVE-2013-0268

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 1.6%

from disclosure to weapon165 days

Published on NVDFeb 18

1st PoC+165d

exploitation probability

1.6%top 27% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

The msr_open function in arch/x86/kernel/msr.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.6 allows local users to bypass intended capability restrictions by executing a crafted application as root, as demonstrated by msr32.c.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1

exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/27297unverified

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References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c903f0456bc69176912dee6dd25c6a66ee1aed00 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00018.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00018.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908693 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c903f0456bc69176912dee6dd25c6a66ee1aed00 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.7.6 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/07/12