Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 16, 2013· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2013-2188
CVE-2013-2188
Description
A certain Red Hat patch to the do_filp_open function in fs/namei.c in the kernel package before 2.6.32-358.11.1.el6 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 does not properly handle failure to obtain write permissions, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by leveraging access to a filesystem that is mounted read-only.
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2- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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