| Secunia ID |
SA51015
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| CVE-ID |
CVE-2012-3412
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| Release Date |
17 Oct 2012
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| Last Change |
07 Nov 2012
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| Criticality |
Less Critical
Typically used for cross-site scripting vulnerabilities and privilege escalation vulnerabilities.
This rating is also used for vulnerabilities allowing exposure of sensitive data to local users.
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| Solution Status |
Vendor Patch
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| Where |
From local network
"From local network" describes vulnerabilities where the attack vector requires that an attacker is situated on the same network as a vulnerable system (not necessarily a LAN).
This category covers vulnerabilities in certain services (e.g. DHCP, RPC, administrative services) that should not be accessible from the Internet, but only from a local network and optionally a restricted set of external systems.
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| Impact |
DoS (Denial of Service)
This includes vulnerabilities ranging from excessive resource consumption (e.g. causing a system to use a lot of memory) to crashing an application or an entire system.
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| Description |
Red Hat has issued an update for kernel. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). For more information: SA50081
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| Solution |
Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.
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| Original Advisory |
RHSA-2012:1366-1: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1366.html RHSA-2012:1401-1: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1401.html RHSA-2012:1430-1: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1430.html
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