CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-3412

7.8 HIGH Published 2012-10-03 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-10-03
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-189

Description

The sfc (aka Solarflare Solarstorm) driver in the Linux kernel before 3.2.30 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (DMA descriptor consumption and network-controller outage) via crafted TCP packets that trigger a small MSS value.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 3.0.44) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.1 < 3.2.30) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.3 < 3.4.12) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.5 < 3.5.5) • canonical ubuntu linux 10.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 11.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 11.10 • canonical ubuntu linux 12.04

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References