CVE-2012-3552 in Linux Kernel

Summary

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.

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Reservation

06/14/2012

Disclosure

10/03/2012

Status

Confirmed

Entries

VulDB provides additional information and datapoints for this CVE:

ID	Vulnerability	CWE	Exp	Cou	CVE
6034	Linux Kernel extents.c ext4_ext_more_to_rm race condition	362	Not defined	Official fix	CVE-2012-3552
6033	Linux Kernel i.MX Clock Infrastructure race condition	362	Not defined	Official fix	CVE-2012-3552

Sources

• MITRE
• NVD
• CVE Details