Published: 15/02/2014 Updated: 07/11/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 10

VMScore: 694

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

The tcp_rcv_state_process function in net/ipv4/tcp_input.c in the Linux kernel prior to 3.2.24 allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (kernel resource consumption) via a flood of SYN+FIN TCP packets, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-2663.

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CWE-400 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.2.24 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fdf5af0daf8019cec2396cdef8fb042d80fe71fa https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=826702 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fdf5af0daf8019cec2396cdef8fb042d80fe71fa https://nvd.nist.gov https://usn.ubuntu.com/1653-1/

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