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CVE-2012-3552

Date: October 3, 2012

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (9)

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f6d8bd051c391c1c0458a30b2a7abcd939329259
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3552
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1540.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/31/11
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.0
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853465
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3552
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f6d8bd051c391c1c0458a30b2a7abcd939329259
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2012-3552

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

CWE-362

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): HIGH
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): COMPLETE
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