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CVE-2012-3552

Published: Oct 3, 2012

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

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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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_REDHAT

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f6d8bd051c391c1c0458a30b2a7abcd939329259

x_refsource_CONFIRM

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.0

x_refsource_CONFIRM

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f6d8bd051c391c1c0458a30b2a7abcd939329259

x_refsource_CONFIRM

[oss-security] 20120831 Re: CVE Request -- kernel: net: slab corruption due to improper synchronization around inet->opt

mailing-list

x_refsource_MLIST

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853465

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