UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4512

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-4512
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2013/UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4512.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4512
Upstream
Withdrawn
2025-07-18T16:42:55Z
Published
2013-11-12T14:35:00Z
Modified
2025-07-16T08:10:47Z
Severity
  • Ubuntu - low
Summary
[none]
Details

Buffer overflow in the exitcode_proc_write function in arch/um/kernel/exitcode.c in the Linux kernel before 3.12 allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging root privileges for a write operation.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux@3.12.0-2.5?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.12.0-2.5

Affected versions

3.*
3.11.0-12.19
3.12.0-1.3

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Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2013/UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4512.json"