CVE-2012-4565
The tcp_illinois_info function in net/ipv4/tcp_illinois.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4.19, when the net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control illinois setting is enabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and OOPS) by reading TCP stats.
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 41% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-189
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8f363b77ee4fbf7c3bbcf5ec2c5ca482d396d664
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/091110.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1580.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51409
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.4.19