CVE-2012-3552 (GCVE-0-2012-3552)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-10-03 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:13
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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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CWE
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Date Public ?
2011-07-21 00:00
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