CVE-2013-2224 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting specific Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 kernels (2.6.32) due to an incorrect fix for CVE-2012-3552. A local attacker can trigger an invalid free operation and system crash, or potentially gain privileges, by using a sendmsg system call with the IP_RETOPTS option. With a CVSS score of 6.9 (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C), this vulnerability is of high severity, requiring local access and medium attack complexity for a complete impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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