CVE-2013-0310: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 6.6. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The cipso_v4_validate function in net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4.8 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an IPOPT_CIPSO IP_OPTIONS setsockopt system call.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 3.4.7; version 3.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.2 only; version 3.0.3 only; version 3.0.4 only; …
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 6.0 only

Published 2013-02-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.