GSD-2012-6689
Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:20Details
The netlink_sendmsg function in net/netlink/af_netlink.c in the Linux kernel before 3.5.5 does not validate the dst_pid field, which allows local users to have an unspecified impact by spoofing Netlink messages.
Aliases
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