CVE-2013-0290

The skbrecvdatagram function in net/core/datagram.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8 does not properly handle the MSGPEEK flag with zero-length data, which allows local users to cause a denial of service infinite loop and system hang via a crafted application...

CVE-2013-0290: Improper Input Validation

The skbrecvdatagram function in net/core/datagram.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8 does not properly handle the MSGPEEK flag with zero-length data, which allows local users to cause a denial of service infinite loop and system hang via a crafted application...

Fedora 18 : kernel-3.7.8-202.fc18 (2013-2635)

CVE-2013-0290 net: infinite loop in skbrecvdatagram Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues...