CVE-2013-1929: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the tg3_read_vpd function in drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.6 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted firmware that specifies a long string in the Vital Product Data (VPD) data structure.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 3.8.5; version 3.8.0 only; version 3.8.1 only; version 3.8.2 only; version 3.8.3 only; version 3.8.4 only

Published 2013-06-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.