CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-3552
5.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-10-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362
Description
Race condition in the IP implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.0 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (slab corruption and system crash) by sending packets to an application that sets socket options during the handling of network traffic.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 3.0)
• redhat enterprise linux eus 6.2
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
References
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.0 Broken Link
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f6d8bd051c391c1c0458a30b2a7abcd939329259 git.kernel.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1540.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/31/11 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853465 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f6d8bd051c391c1c0458a30b2a7abcd939329259 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.0 Broken Link
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f6d8bd051c391c1c0458a30b2a7abcd939329259 git.kernel.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1540.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/31/11 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853465 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f6d8bd051c391c1c0458a30b2a7abcd939329259 Patch, Third Party Advisory