Security Advisory

CVE-2012-4565

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-12-21 11:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 20:42:54
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.