CVE-2011-3593

A certain Red Hat patch to the vlan_hwaccel_do_receive function in net/8021q/vlan_core.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.32 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via priority-tagged VLAN frames.

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.7 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2013-06-08

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-399

Affected products

• Linux Kernel (Linux)
• Enterprise Linux (Redhat)

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/05/3
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742846
• https://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=redpatch.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0e48f8daac293335e16e007663b9f4d248f89f0c
• https://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=redpatch.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fadca7bdc43b02f518585d9547019966415cadfd