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ghsa-xqxm-8fx9-rwr3

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-17 03:13

Modified

2022-05-17 03:13

Severity ?

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

The sock_setsockopt function in net/core/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 3.5 mishandles negative values of sk_sndbuf and sk_rcvbuf, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability for a crafted setsockopt system call with the (1) SO_SNDBUF or (2) SO_RCVBUF option.

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CVE-2012-6704 (GCVE-0-2012-6704)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2016-12-28 07:42

Modified

2024-08-06 21:36

Severity ?

CWE

n/a

Summary

The sock_setsockopt function in net/core/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 3.5 mishandles negative values of sk_sndbuf and sk_rcvbuf, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability for a crafted setsockopt system call with the (1) SO_SNDBUF or (2) SO_RCVBUF option.

References

URL

Tags

	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95135	vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1402024	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=82981930125abfd39d7c8378a9cfdf5e1be2002b	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/03/1	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/82981930125abfd39d7c8378a9cfdf5e1be2002b	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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