CVE-2012-4565

Description

The tcp_illinois_info function in net/ipv4/tcp_illinois.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4.19, when the net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control illinois setting is enabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and OOPS) by reading TCP stats.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=871848

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1652-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1651-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1650-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1649-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1648-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1647-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1646-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1645-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1644-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56346

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/31/5

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.4.19

http://secunia.com/advisories/51409

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1580.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/091110.html

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8f363b77ee4fbf7c3bbcf5ec2c5ca482d396d664

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3