CVE-2012-2136 (GCVE-0-2012-2136)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-08-09 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 19:26
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The sock_alloc_send_pskb function in net/core/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4.5 does not properly validate a certain length value, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and system crash) or possibly gain privileges by leveraging access to a TUN/TAP device.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
10 references
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| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=816289 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1087.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/50807 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
Date Public
2012-07-16 00:00
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"title": "kernel: net: insufficient data_len validation in sock_alloc_send_pskb()",
"url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2012/cve-2012-2136.json",
"version": "3"
},
"suse_vex": {
"aggregate_severity": "moderate",
"current_release_date": "2026-09-02T12:57:15Z",
"cve": "CVE-2012-2136",
"id": "CVE-2012-2136",
"initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T05:47:14Z",
"product_status:known_not_affected": "537",
"product_status:recommended": "135",
"source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
"status": "interim",
"title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2012-2136",
"url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2012-2136.json",
"version": "16"
}
}
}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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