Security Advisory

CVE-2012-6638

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2014-02-15 11:00:00

Last updated 2024-09-16 16:14:01

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

Description

The tcp_rcv_state_process function in net/ipv4/tcp_input.c in the Linux kernel before 3.2.24 allows remote attackers 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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