CVE-2013-1827

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 3.5.4

Description The issue allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference and system crash. This can be achieved by leveraging the CAP NET ADMIN capability for a certain sender or receiver getsockopt call, specifically affecting the net/dccp/ccid.h file in the Linux kernel.

Recommendations For Linux kernel versions prior to 3.5.4, update to version 3.5.4 or later to resolve the issue.