CVE-2011-1023

The Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38 does not properly handle congestion map updates, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG_ON and system crash) via vectors involving (1) a loopback (aka loop) transmit operation or (2) an InfiniBand (aka ib) transmit operation.

Score

CVSS 2.0 4.9 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2012-06-21

Last modified

2024-08-06

Affected products

• Linux Kernel (Linux)

References

• http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.38
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6094628bfd94323fc1cea05ec2c6affd98c18f7f
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/03/2
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680345
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6094628bfd94323fc1cea05ec2c6affd98c18f7f