CVE-2012-3552 Information

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

Reference

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.0 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f6d8bd051c391c1c0458a30b2a7abcd939329259 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1540.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/31/11 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853465 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f6d8bd051c391c1c0458a30b2a7abcd939329259

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.9