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CVE-2013-0871
Race condition in the ptrace functionality in the Linux kernel before 3.7.5 allows local users to gain privileges via a PTRACE_SETREGS…
- 6.9MediumCVSS base score
- 1.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 27% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Race condition in the ptrace functionality in the Linux kernel before 3.7.5 allows local users to gain privileges via a PTRACE_SETREGS ptrace system call in a crafted application, as demonstrated by ptrace_death.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Chrome
- 42 days later
· 42 days later
Published
- 11 years later
· 11 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.9 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.4% · top 27% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.9.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
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- SUSE-SU-2013:0341 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20130215 Linux kernel race condition with PTRACE_SETREGS (CVE-2013-0871) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9899d11f654474d2d54ea52ceaa2a1f4db3abd68 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-1738-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-1740-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-1742-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-1745-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-1743-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=911937 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2013:0674 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9899d11f654474d2d54ea52ceaa2a1f4db3abd68 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2013:0567 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- USN-1744-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-1736-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- RHSA-2013:0661 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- USN-1739-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2013:0925 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2013:0662 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- USN-1741-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.7.5 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-2632 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- USN-1737-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- RHSA-2013:0695 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2013-0882 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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