CVE-2012-6689
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- May 2, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Feb 27, 2015
Description
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.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.5.5
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=20e1db19db5d6b9e4e83021595eab0dc8f107bef
- [linux-kernel] 20120817 [PATCH 2/2] [RFC] netlink: fix possible spoofing from non-root processesmailing-list
- 72739vdb-entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848949
- [oss-security] 20150222 Re: libmnl: incorrect validation of netlink message origin allows attackers to spoof netlink messagesmailing-list
- [linux-kernel] 20120817 [PATCH 0/2] netlink patchesmailing-list
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/20e1db19db5d6b9e4e83021595eab0dc8f107bef
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