Race condition vulnerability in net/sctp/socket.c in Linux kernel before 4.1.2 allows local users to cause denial of service

CVE-2015-3212 · MEDIUM Severity

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

Race condition in net/sctp/socket.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (list corruption and panic) via a rapid series of system calls related to sockets, as demonstrated by setsockopt calls.

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