CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-6657
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-09-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The sock_setsockopt function in net/core/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 3.5.7 does not ensure that a keepalive action is associated with a stream socket, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by leveraging the ability to create a raw socket.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 3.5.6)
• linux linux kernel 3.5.1
• linux linux kernel 3.5.2
• linux linux kernel 3.5.3
• linux linux kernel 3.5.4
• linux linux kernel 3.5.5
• novell suse linux enterprise server 10.0
• novell suse linux enterprise server 11.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3e10986d1d698140747fcfc2761ec9cb64c1d582 git.kernel.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00000.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142722450701342&w=2 marc.info
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142722544401658&w=2 marc.info
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.5.7 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/15/8 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1141742 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3e10986d1d698140747fcfc2761ec9cb64c1d582 Exploit
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3e10986d1d698140747fcfc2761ec9cb64c1d582 git.kernel.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00000.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142722450701342&w=2 marc.info
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142722544401658&w=2 marc.info
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.5.7 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/15/8 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1141742 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3e10986d1d698140747fcfc2761ec9cb64c1d582 Exploit