CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-3212

4.9 MEDIUM Published 2015-08-31 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-08-31
Last modified
2026-06-17
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-362

Description

Race condition in net/sctp/socket.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (list corruption and panic) via a rapid series of system calls related to sockets, as demonstrated by setsockopt calls.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 4.1.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

References