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CVE-2012-6704

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Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
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CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

ADP enrichment

CVE

No English description supplied.