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CVE Reference: CVE-2012-2136 |
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Original Page at CVE MITRE: CVE-2012-2136 |
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Description: The sock_alloc_send_pskb function in net/core/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4.5 does not properly validate a certain length value, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and system crash) or possibly gain privileges by leveraging access to a TUN/TAP device. |
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CVE Status: Candidate |
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References: UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1535-1 http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1529-1 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA50807 REDHAT http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0743.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1087.html CONFIRM http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.4.5 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=cc9b17ad29ecaa20bfe426a8d4dbfb94b13ff1cc BID 53721 |
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