{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2013-04-23T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: net: incorrect SCM_CREDENTIALS passing",
    "id" : "955629",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=955629"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "6.9",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "The scm_set_cred function in include/net/scm.h in the Linux kernel before 3.8.11 uses incorrect uid and gid values during credentials passing, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application." ],
  "statement" : "This issue did not affect the versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.\nThis issue was addressed in Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 via RHSA-2013:0829 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0829.html",
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Andy Lutomirski for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2",
    "release_date" : "2013-05-20T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2013:0829",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:2:server:el6",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:3.6.11.2-rt33.39.el6rt"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-1979\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1979" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2013-1979",
  "csaw" : false
}