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ELSA-2012-1540 Important: Oracle Linux kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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ELSA-2012-1540 Important: Oracle Linux kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Published

10/03/2012

Created

07/25/2018

Added

12/07/2012

Modified

08/04/2020

Description

Race condition in the IP implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.0 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (slab corruption and system crash) by sending packets to an application that sets socket options during the handling of network traffic.

Solution(s)

oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-debug
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-debug-devel
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-devel
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-doc
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-headers
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-pae
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-pae-devel
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-xen
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-xen-devel
oracle-linux-upgrade-ocfs2
oracle-linux-upgrade-oracleasm

References

https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2012-2372
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56498
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CVE - 2012-2372
CVE - 2012-3552
CVE - 2012-4508
CVE - 2012-4535
CVE - 2012-4537
CVE - 2012-5513
DSA-2582
RHSA-2012:0743
RHSA-2012:1540
RHSA-2013:0496
RHSA-2013:1519
RHSA-2013:1783
http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2012-December/003161.html
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