CVE-2012-2372

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-01-22 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The rds_ib_xmit function in net/rds/ib_send.c in the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol implementation in the Linux kernel 3.7.4 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG_ON and kernel panic) by establishing an RDS connection with the source IP address equal to the IPoIB interface's own IP address, as demonstrated by rds-ping.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 3.7.4; 3.7, 3.7.1, 3.7.2, 3.7.3

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0743.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1540.html
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1529-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54062
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1555-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1556-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=822754
https://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=redpatch.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c7b6a0a1d8d636852be130fa15fa8be10d4704e8
https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2012/suse-su-20121679-1.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0743.html

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