Denial of Service Vulnerability in Solarflare Solarstorm Driver

CVE-2012-3412 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

The sfc (aka Solarflare Solarstorm) driver in the Linux kernel before 3.2.30 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (DMA descriptor consumption and network-controller outage) via crafted TCP packets that trigger a small MSS value.

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