Security Advisory

CVE-2012-6657

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2014-09-28 10:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 21:36:01
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The sock_setsockopt function in net/core/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 3.5.7 does not ensure that a keepalive action is associated with a stream socket, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by leveraging the ability to create a raw socket.