CVE-2012-1583

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-06-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Double free vulnerability in the xfrm6_tunnel_rcv function in net/ipv6/xfrm6_tunnel.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.22, when the xfrm6_tunnel module is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via crafted IPv6 packets.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 2.6.21.7; 2.6.0, 2.6.0-test1, 2.6.0-test10, 2.6.0-test11, 2.6.0-test2, 2.6.0-test3 (+255)

References

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.22
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d0772b70faaf8e9f2013b6c4273d94d5eac8047a
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133951357207000&w=2
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0488.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/48881
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53139
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026930
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=752304
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d0772b70faaf8e9f2013b6c4273d94d5eac8047a
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.22
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d0772b70faaf8e9f2013b6c4273d94d5eac8047a
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133951357207000&w=2

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