CVE-2013-6432: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ping_recvmsg function in net/ipv4/ping.c in the Linux kernel before 3.12.4 does not properly interact with read system calls on ping sockets, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) by leveraging unspecified privileges to execute a crafted application.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 3.12.3; 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 2013-12-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.