CVE-2012-6689
First published: Thu Aug 16 2012(Updated: )
Florian Weimer of the Red Hat Product Security Team discovere that the mnl_nlmsg_portid_ok() function in libmnl 1.0.3 and earlier did not correctly validate the origin of a Netlink message, allowing local attackers to spoof Netlink messages, with context-dependent consequences.
Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| debian/linux | 5.10.223-1 5.10.226-1 6.1.115-1 6.1.119-1 6.11.10-1 6.12.5-1 |
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Reference Links
- 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
- http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=134522422125983
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=851968
- http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=134522422125983&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=134522422925986&w=2
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2012-6689
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/06/13
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=20e1db19db5d6b9e4e83021595eab0dc8f107bef
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6689
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-6689
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6689
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-6689
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