{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2012-08-21T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: af_netlink: invalid handling of SCM_CREDENTIALS passing",
    "id" : "850449",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=850449"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "4.4",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "The Netlink implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.2.30 does not properly handle messages that lack SCM_CREDENTIALS data, which might allow local users to spoof Netlink communication via a crafted message, as demonstrated by a message to (1) Avahi or (2) NetworkManager." ],
  "statement" : "This issue did not affect the versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 as they did not backport the commit that introduced this issue. Future kernel updates for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 may address this issue.",
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Pablo Neira Ayuso for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2",
    "release_date" : "2012-12-04T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2012:1491",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:2:server:el6",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:3.2.33-rt50.66.el6rt"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-3520\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3520" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2012-3520",
  "csaw" : false
}