CVE-2013-0871

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Summary

CVECVE-2013-0871
StatePUBLISHED
AssignerChrome
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2013-02-18 04:41:50 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionRace condition in the ptrace functionality in the Linux kernel before 3.7.5 allows local users to gain privileges via a PTRACE_SETREGS ptrace system call in a crafted application, as demonstrated by ptrace_death.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.9 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: CWE-362 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com
USN-1737-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com
USN-1740-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com
www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.7.5 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kernel.org
USN-1739-1: Linux kernel vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
USN-1745-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
git.kernel.org af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 git.kernel.org
USN-1742-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
USN-1738-1: Linux kernel (Oneiric backport) vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
USN-1744-1: Linux kernel vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
ptrace: ensure arch_ptrace/ptrace_request can never race with SIGKILL · torvalds/linux@9899d11 · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com
911937 – (CVE-2013-0871) CVE-2013-0871 kernel: race condition with PTRACE_SETREGS af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com
oss-security - Linux kernel race condition with PTRACE_SETREGS (CVE-2013-0871) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2632-1 linux-2.6 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2013:0674-1: important: Security update for af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
USN-1743-1: Linux kernel (Quantal HWE) vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
USN-1736-1: Linux kernel vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
USN-1741-1: Linux kernel vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2013:0925-1: important: kernel: security af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2013:0341-1: important: Security update for af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree MITRE git.kernel.org
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