CVE-2012-4467: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 6.6. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The (1) do_siocgstamp and (2) do_siocgstampns functions in net/socket.c in the Linux kernel before 3.5.4 use an incorrect argument order, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted ioctl call.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 3.5.3; version 3.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.2 only; version 3.0.3 only; version 3.0.4 only; …

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