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CVE-2012-6657

Published: Sep 28, 2014

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

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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.

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

References

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.5.7

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vendor-advisory

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SUSE-SU-2015:0652

vendor-advisory

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vendor-advisory

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1141742

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3e10986d1d698140747fcfc2761ec9cb64c1d582

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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3e10986d1d698140747fcfc2761ec9cb64c1d582

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[oss-security] 20140915 Re: CVE request Linux kernel: net: guard tcp_set_keepalive against crash

mailing-list

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SUSE-SU-2015:0812

vendor-advisory

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