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CVE-2012-6689

Date: May 2, 2016

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

7.8

Related Resources (12)

Url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/20e1db19db5d6b9e4e83021595eab0dc8f107bef

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2012-6689

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-6689

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/22/10

Url: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.5.5

Url: http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=134522422925986&w=2

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72739

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6689

Url: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=20e1db19db5d6b9e4e83021595eab0dc8f107bef

Url: http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=134522422125983&w=2

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848949

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2012-6689

Severity Score

7.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Access Control

CWE-284

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.8
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	LOW
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	7.2
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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