CVE-2012-6638

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')

Publication date:

15/02/2014

Last modified:

11/04/2025

Description

The tcp_rcv_state_process function in net/ipv4/tcp_input.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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

7.80

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::		3.0.38 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	3.1 (including)	3.2.24 (excluding)

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2012-6638

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools