What is CVE-2013-4514?

CVE-2013-4514 is a Medium severity Linux kernel vulnerability with a CVSS score of 4.7 out of 10, classified as a Buffer Overflow flaw (CWE-119). CVE-2013-4514 has not been confirmed as actively exploited and is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2013-4514?

CVE-2013-4514 has a CVSS score of 4.7 out of 10, rated Medium severity. The vector string is AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C.

Is there a patch available for CVE-2013-4514?

Monitor the NIST NVD and your Linux distribution's security advisories for CVE-2013-4514 patch availability.

Is CVE-2013-4514 actively exploited?

CVE-2013-4514 has not been confirmed as actively exploited and is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

What is Buffer Overflow (CWE-119)?

The product performs operations on a memory buffer but reads or writes outside its intended boundaries. See MITRE CWE for full details: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/119.html

CVE-2013-4514

Medium

Multiple buffer overflows in drivers/staging/wlags49_h2/wl_priv.c in the Linux kernel before 3.12 allow local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability and providing a long station-name string, related to the (1) wvlan_uil_put_info and (2) wvlan_set_station_nickname functions.

Package Linux Kernel

Published 2013-11-12

Last modified 2026-04-29

CVSS version 2.0

Patch available

Awaiting data

CVSS 2.0 score

4.7

out of 10

Medium

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Scope

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Vector string

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Weakness type

CWE-119

CVE-2013-4514 is a Buffer Overflow vulnerability

What is Buffer Overflow?

The product performs operations on a memory buffer but reads or writes outside its intended boundaries. Learn more on MITRE CWE

References

18 total

GitHub
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b5e2f339865fb443107e5b10603e53bbc92dc054

Exploit Patch
Kernel.org
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.12.bz2

Patch
Kernel Git
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b5e2f339865fb443107e5b10603e53bbc92dc054
Lists
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00002.html
Lists
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00045.html

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Details

CVE ID CVE-2013-4514

Severity Medium

CVSS score 4.7 / 10

CVSS version 2.0

Published 2013-11-12

Modified 2026-04-29

KEV No

Patch Awaiting data

Package linux

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2013-4514?

CVE-2013-4514 is a Medium severity Linux kernel vulnerability with a CVSS score of 4.7 out of 10 , classified as a Buffer Overflow flaw (CWE-119) . CVE-2013-4514 has not been confirmed as actively exploited and is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
What is the CVSS score for CVE-2013-4514?

CVE-2013-4514 has a CVSS score of 4.7 out of 10, rated Medium severity (CVSS 2.0). The vector string is AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C.
Is there a patch available for CVE-2013-4514?

Monitor the NIST NVD and your Linux distribution's security advisories for CVE-2013-4514 patch availability.
Is CVE-2013-4514 actively exploited?

No. CVE-2013-4514 has not been confirmed as actively exploited. It is not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.