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Tracker / CVE-2012-3412

CVE-2012-3412

High 7.8

The sfc (aka Solarflare Solarstorm) driver in the Linux kernel before 3.2.30 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (DMA descriptor consumption and network-controller outage) via crafted TCP packets that trigger a small MSS value.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
linux linux_kernel · … → 3.0.44
linux linux_kernel · 3.1 → 3.2.30
linux linux_kernel · 3.3 → 3.4.12
linux linux_kernel · 3.5 → 3.5.5

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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