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
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