CVE-2012-3552

Impact

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.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• 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%3Ba=commit%3Bh=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
• 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%3Ba=commit%3Bh=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