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CVE-2013-4343

Kernel: net: use-after-free TUNSETIFF

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

6.8

CVSS 2.0

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Published · September 11, 2013

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in drivers/net/tun.c in the Linux kernel through 3.11.1 allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability and providing an invalid tuntap interface name in a TUNSETIFF ioctl call.

Statement

This issue does not affect the versions of the kernel package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 6.8
AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CWE-416 · Use After Free