{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2011-12-02T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "Kernel: net: tcp: potential DoS via SYN+FIN messages",
    "id" : "1066055",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1066055"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "6.4",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "The tcp_rcv_state_process function in net/ipv4/tcp_input.c in the Linux kernel before 3.2.24 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel resource consumption) via a flood of SYN+FIN TCP packets, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-2663." ],
  "statement" : "This issue does not affect the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2014-04-24T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2014:0433",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.18-371.8.1.el5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 Extended Update Support",
    "release_date" : "2014-06-19T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2014:0772",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:5.9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.18-348.27.1.el5"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "realtime-kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:2"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-6638\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6638" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2012-6638",
  "csaw" : false
}