CVE-2013-1767: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 6.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Use-after-free vulnerability in the shmem_remount_fs function in mm/shmem.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.10 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (system crash) by remounting a tmpfs filesystem without specifying a required mpol (aka mempolicy) mount option.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 3.7.9; version 3.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.2 only; version 3.0.3 only; version 3.0.4 only; …

Published 2013-02-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.