CVE-2012-3552
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
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.85% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 86.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 5.9 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2012-10-03 10:00Z14 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 20:13Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2012-06-14
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')Class
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- b5e446d14f3b7d6bbdb45c1fa19eb34b021a33e0e2d05d6bd5639aac06c401e3
05 Affected products
06 References
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2012:1540http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1540.html
- github.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f6d8bd051c391c1c0458a30b2a7abcd939329259
- ftp.osuosl.orghttp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.0
- git.kernel.orghttp://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f6d8bd051c391c1c0458a30b2a7abcd939329259
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20120831 Re: CVE Request -- kernel: net: slab corruption due to improper synchronization around inet->opthttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/31/11
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853465
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- linux Fixed in 3.0-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- linux Fixed in 3.0-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- linux Fixed in 3.0-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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