CVE-2012-3552: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 3.0 (fixed in 3.0)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus: version 6.2 only

Published 2012-10-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.