CVE-2013-1773
No CVSS score yet. EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Buffer overflow in the VFAT filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.3 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (system crash) via a VFAT write operation on a filesystem with the utf8 mount option, which is not properly handled during UTF-8 to UTF-16 conversion.
- EPSS
- 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 63% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-119
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
- redhat:enterprise_linux
- redhat:enterprise_mrg
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0720a06a7518c9d0c0125bd5d1f3b6264c55c3dd
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0744.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0928.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1026.html
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/23248/