CVE-2011-1478
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Oct 23, 2011
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Mar 21, 2011
Description
The napi_reuse_skb function in net/core/dev.c in the Generic Receive Offload (GRO) implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38 does not reset the values of certain structure members, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a malformed VLAN frame.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.38
- 20111013 VMSA-2011-0012 VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third party libraries and ESX Service Consolemailing-list
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6d152e23ad1a7a5b40fef1f42e017d66e6115159
- 8480third-party-advisory
- 46397third-party-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691270
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=66c46d741e2e60f0e8b625b80edb0ab820c46d7a
- [oss-security] 20110328 CVE-2011-1478 kernel: gro: reset dev and skb_iff on skb reusemailing-list
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html
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