CVE-2012-6638
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6638
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2012-6638.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2012-6638
- Downstream
- Published
- 2014-02-15T14:57:07Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T19:01:28Z
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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The tcprcvstateprocess function in net/ipv4/tcpinput.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.
- References
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- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.2.24
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=826702
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fdf5af0daf8019cec2396cdef8fb042d80fe71fa
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fdf5af0daf8019cec2396cdef8fb042d80fe71fa