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CVE-2012-4467

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2012-10-10 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The (1) do_siocgstamp and (2) do_siocgstampns functions in net/socket.c in the Linux kernel before 3.5.4 use an incorrect argument order, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted ioctl call.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: through 3.5.3; 3.0-rc1, 3.0-rc2, 3.0-rc3, 3.0-rc4, 3.0-rc5, 3.0-rc6 (+136)

References

• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ed6fe9d614fc1bca95eb8c0ccd0e92db00ef9d5d
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.5.4
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/04/2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55785
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ed6fe9d614fc1bca95eb8c0ccd0e92db00ef9d5d
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ed6fe9d614fc1bca95eb8c0ccd0e92db00ef9d5d
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.5.4
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/04/2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55785
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ed6fe9d614fc1bca95eb8c0ccd0e92db00ef9d5d

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