CVE-2012-3552

Public on 2012-10-03

Modified on 2014-09-14

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.

Severity

Medium

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CVSS v3 Base Score

5.4

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Affected Packages

Platform	Package	Release Date	Advisory
Amazon Linux 1	kernel	2012-10-08 10:43	ALAS-2012-133

CVSS Scores

	Score Type	Score	Vector
Amazon Linux	CVSSv2	5.4	AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
NVD	CVSSv2	7.1	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
NVD	CVSSv3	5.9	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Red Hat: CVE-2012-3552 Mitre: CVE-2012-3552 FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity