CVE-2013-4588: Canonical Ubuntu Linux
High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33, when CONFIG_IP_VS is used, allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability for (1) a getsockopt system call, related to the do_ip_vs_get_ctl function, or (2) a setsockopt system call, related to the do_ip_vs_set_ctl function.
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Published 2013-11-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.