CVE-2011-1576

Published Aug 31, 2011

Last updated 2 years ago

Overview

Description
The Generic Receive Offload (GRO) implementation in the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 2.6.32 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) Hypervisor and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted VLAN packets that are processed by the napi_reuse_skb function, leading to (1) a memory leak or (2) memory corruption, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1478.
Source
secalert@redhat.com
NVD status
Modified

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Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
5.7
Impact score
6.9
Exploitability score
5.5
Vector string
AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-119

Configurations