Description
Race condition in the IP implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.0 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (slab corruption and system crash) by sending packets to an application that sets socket options during the handling of network traffic.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1540.html ↗
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f6d8bd051c391c1c0458a30b2a7abcd939329259 ↗
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.0 ↗
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f6d8bd051c391c1c0458a30b2a7abcd939329259 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/31/11 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853465 ↗