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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