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CVE-2012-2372 (GCVE-0-2012-2372)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-01-22 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 19:34
VLAI
Summary
The rds_ib_xmit function in net/rds/ib_send.c in the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol implementation in the Linux kernel 3.7.4 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG_ON and kernel panic) by establishing an RDS connection with the source IP address equal to the IPoIB interface's own IP address, as demonstrated by rds-ping.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1540.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1556-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0743.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=redpatch.git%3Ba=co… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54062 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=822754 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1555-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1529-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HP
Date Public
2012-05-18 00:00
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