vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2012-6689: linux -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
May 2, 2016
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

The netlink_sendmsg function in net/netlink/af_netlink.c in the Linux kernel before 3.5.5 does not validate the dst_pid field, which allows local users to have an unspecified impact by spoofing Netlink messages.

Solution

debian-upgrade-linux
Title
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