{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2013-01-24T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: x86/msr: /dev/cpu/*/msr local privilege escalation",
    "id" : "908693",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908693"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "6.0",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "The msr_open function in arch/x86/kernel/msr.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.6 allows local users to bypass intended capability restrictions by executing a crafted application as root, as demonstrated by msr32.c." ],
  "statement" : "This issue did affect the version of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2013-03-11T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2013:0621",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.18-348.3.1.el5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2013-03-12T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2013:0630",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.32-358.2.1.el6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2",
    "release_date" : "2013-03-11T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2013:0622",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:2:server:el6",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:3.6.11-rt30.25.el6rt"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-0268\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-0268" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2013-0268",
  "csaw" : false
}