PT-2012-5405 · Linux+3 · Linux Kernel+3

Zhang Zuotao · Published 2012-12-18 · Updated 2023-02-13 · CVE-2012-4444

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.36

Description The issue allows remote attackers to bypass intended network restrictions via overlapping IPv6 fragments. This is due to a problem in the ip6 frag queue function in net/ipv6/reassembly.c.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.6.36, update to version 2.6.36 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CESA-2012_1580

CVE-2012-4444

RHSA-2012:1580

RHSA-2012_1580

RHSA-2013:0168

RHSA-2013_0168

SUSE-SU-2013_0856-1

SUSE-SU-2015:0652-1

Affected Products

Centos

Linux Kernel

Red Hat

Suse

References · 16

• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/70789d7052239992824628db8133de08dc78e593 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=874835 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-4444 · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2012-2048.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-06/msg00000.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-4444 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-4444 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1661-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2012-1580.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4444 · Security Note
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1660-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1580.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://media.blackhat.com/bh-eu-12/Atlasis/bh-eu-12-Atlasis-Attacking_IPv6-WP.pdf · Note
• http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36 · Note
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=70789d7052239992824628db8133de08dc78e593 · Note