suse · CVE-2012-6704

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Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 13:08:00 UTC Updated: 2025-05-18 00:22:52 UTC

View at Official suse advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail

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Tracker summary

CVE-2012-6704 severity moderate: SUSE including 101 source package names (kernel-bigmem-3.0.101-94.1, kernel-bigmem-base-3.0.101-94.1, …), 509 product×package rows across 84 product lines (HPE Helion OpenStack 8, SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0, … (84 product lines)): Known Not Affected 330, Fixed 179.

Description:

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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