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Tracker / CVE-2012-6689

CVE-2012-6689

High 7.8

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.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · … → 3.0.44
linux linux_kernel · 3.1 → 3.2.30
linux linux_kernel · 3.3 → 3.4.12
linux linux_kernel · 3.5 → 3.5.5

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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