# CVE-2013-2188: A certain Red Hat patch to the do\_filp\_open function in fs/namei.c in the kernel package before 2.6.32-358.11.1.el6 on Red Hat Enterprise Li

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2013-07-16 · Updated: 2024-08-06

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

A certain Red Hat patch to the do_filp_open function in fs/namei.c in the kernel package before 2.6.32-358.11.1.el6 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 does not properly handle failure to obtain write permissions, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by leveraging access to a filesystem that is mounted read-only.

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## References

- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975406

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