CVE-2012-3552

medium

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.

References

Advisories
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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f6d8bd051c391c1c0458a30b2a7abcd939329259

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853465

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/31/11

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1540.html

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f6d8bd051c391c1c0458a30b2a7abcd939329259

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-10-03

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.02043