Vulnerability CVE-2012-6689
Published: 2016-05-02

Description:
The netlink_sendmsg function in net/netlink/af_netlink.c in the Linux kernel before 3.5.5 does not validate the dst_pid field, which allows local users to have an unspecified impact by spoofing Netlink messages.

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.2/10
10/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Linux -> Linux kernel 

 References:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=20e1db19db5d6b9e4e83021595eab0dc8f107bef
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=134522422125983&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=134522422925986&w=2
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.5.5
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/22/10
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72739
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848949
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/20e1db19db5d6b9e4e83021595eab0dc8f107bef
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