{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "cve@mitre.org", "ID": "CVE-2012-6704", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "n/a", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "n/a" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "n/a" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "The sock_setsockopt function in net/core/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 3.5 mishandles negative values of sk_sndbuf and sk_rcvbuf, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability for a crafted setsockopt system call with the (1) SO_SNDBUF or (2) SO_RCVBUF option." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "95135", "refsource": "BID", "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95135" }, { "name": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1402024", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1402024" }, { "name": "http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=82981930125abfd39d7c8378a9cfdf5e1be2002b", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=82981930125abfd39d7c8378a9cfdf5e1be2002b" }, { "name": "[oss-security] 20161202 Re: CVE Request: Linux: signed overflows for SO_{SND|RCV}BUFFORCE", "refsource": "MLIST", "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/03/1" }, { "name": "https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/82981930125abfd39d7c8378a9cfdf5e1be2002b", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/82981930125abfd39d7c8378a9cfdf5e1be2002b" } ] } }