Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 4, 2013· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2013-2224
CVE-2013-2224
Description
A certain Red Hat patch for the Linux kernel 2.6.32 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (invalid free operation and system crash) or possibly gain privileges via a sendmsg system call with the IP_RETOPTS option, as demonstrated by hemlock.c. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2012-3552.
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2- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- Range: 2.6.32
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