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CVE-2012-6689
Published: May 2, 2016
Modified: Aug 6, 2024
PUBLISHED
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.
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References
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.5.5
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[linux-kernel] 20120817 [PATCH 2/2] [RFC] netlink: fix possible spoofing from non-root processes
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72739
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848949
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[linux-kernel] 20120817 [PATCH 0/2] netlink patches
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