CVE-2011-2942

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jun 8, 2013
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Jul 27, 2011

Description

A certain Red Hat patch to the __br_deliver function in net/bridge/br_forward.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging connectivity to a network interface that uses an Ethernet bridge device.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730917
[oss-security] 20111024 kernel; CVE-2011-2942 and CVE-2011-3209mailing-list

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