CVE-2012-3552
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.9EPSS 2.9%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.9 (v3.1)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-362
- EPSS score
- 2.9% (87th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-3499)
- Published
- October 3, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-3499 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- linux / linux kernel
- redhat / enterprise linux eus
References
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.0(Broken Link)
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f6d8bd051c391c1c0458a30b2a7abcd939329259
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1540.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/31/11(Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853465(Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f6d8bd051c391c1c0458a30b2a7abcd939329259(Patch, Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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