CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-6689
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-05-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-284
Description
The netlink_sendmsg function in net/netlink/af_netlink.c in the Linux kernel before 3.5.5 does not validate the dst_pid field, which allows local users to have an unspecified impact by spoofing Netlink messages.
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)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=20e1db19db5d6b9e4e83021595eab0dc8f107bef Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=134522422125983&w=2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=134522422925986&w=2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.5.5 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/22/10 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72739 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848949 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/20e1db19db5d6b9e4e83021595eab0dc8f107bef Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=20e1db19db5d6b9e4e83021595eab0dc8f107bef Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=134522422125983&w=2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=134522422925986&w=2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.5.5 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/22/10 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72739 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848949 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/20e1db19db5d6b9e4e83021595eab0dc8f107bef Third Party Advisory