National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-0207

Overview

The igmp_heard_query function in net/ipv4/igmp.c in the Linux kernel before 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and panic) via IGMP packets.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a8c1f65c79cbbb2f7da782d4c9d15639a9b94b27

Hyperlink:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a8c1f65c79cbbb2f7da782d4c9d15639a9b94b27

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/25c413ad0029ea86008234be28aee33456e53e5b

Hyperlink:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/25c413ad0029ea86008234be28aee33456e53e5b

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=772867

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=772867

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20120110 CVE-2012-0207 kernel: igmp: Avoid zero delay when receiving odd mixture of IGMP queries

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/10/5

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.2.1

Hyperlink:http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.2.1

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a8c1f65c79cbbb2f7da782d4c9d15639a9b94b27

Hyperlink:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a8c1f65c79cbbb2f7da782d4c9d15639a9b94b27

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=654876

Hyperlink:http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=654876