cve-2012-6657
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2014-09-28 10:00
Modified
2024-08-06 21:36
Severity ?
Summary
The sock_setsockopt function in net/core/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 3.5.7 does not ensure that a keepalive action is associated with a stream socket, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by leveraging the ability to create a raw socket.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3e10986d1d698140747fcfc2761ec9cb64c1d582
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00000.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142722450701342&w=2
secalert@redhat.comhttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142722544401658&w=2
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.5.7Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/15/8
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1141742
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3e10986d1d698140747fcfc2761ec9cb64c1d582Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3e10986d1d698140747fcfc2761ec9cb64c1d582
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00000.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142722450701342&w=2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142722544401658&w=2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.5.7Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/15/8
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1141742
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3e10986d1d698140747fcfc2761ec9cb64c1d582Exploit
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