CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-6638
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-02-15
- 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-400
Description
The tcp_rcv_state_process function in net/ipv4/tcp_input.c in the Linux kernel before 3.2.24 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel resource consumption) via a flood of SYN+FIN TCP packets, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-2663.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 3.0.38)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.1 < 3.2.24)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fdf5af0daf8019cec2396cdef8fb042d80fe71fa git.kernel.org
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.2.24 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=826702 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fdf5af0daf8019cec2396cdef8fb042d80fe71fa Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fdf5af0daf8019cec2396cdef8fb042d80fe71fa git.kernel.org
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.2.24 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=826702 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fdf5af0daf8019cec2396cdef8fb042d80fe71fa Patch, Third Party Advisory