Medium severity · published Oct 3, 2012
CVE-2012-3552
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…
5.9
CVSS
2.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.8% · higher than 87% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KE
Kernel · Linux
before 3.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Eus · Redhat
6.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3552
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-3552
Broken Link
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.0
git.kernel.org
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f6d8bd051c391c1c0458a30b2a7abcd939329259
Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1540.html
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/31/11
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853465
Patch
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f6d8bd051c391c1c0458a30b2a7abcd939329259
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