CVE-2013-4514: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple buffer overflows in drivers/staging/wlags49_h2/wl_priv.c in the Linux kernel before 3.12 allow local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability and providing a long station-name string, related to the (1) wvlan_uil_put_info and (2) wvlan_set_station_nickname functions.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 3.11.7; version 3.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.2 only; version 3.0.3 only; version 3.0.4 only; …

Published 2013-11-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.