CVE-2012-3364

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-01-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the Near Field Communication Controller Interface (NCI) in the Linux kernel before 3.4.5 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via incoming frames with crafted length fields.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 3.4.4; 3.4, 3.4.1, 3.4.2, 3.4.3

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=67de956ff5dc1d4f321e16cfbd63f5be3b691b43
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=134030878917784&w=2
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1529-1
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.4.5
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/27/9
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/67de956ff5dc1d4f321e16cfbd63f5be3b691b43
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=67de956ff5dc1d4f321e16cfbd63f5be3b691b43
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=134030878917784&w=2
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1529-1
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.4.5
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/27/9
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/67de956ff5dc1d4f321e16cfbd63f5be3b691b43

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