CVE-2011-4112
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- May 17, 2012
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 18, 2011
Description
The net subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.1 does not properly restrict use of the IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING flag, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability to access /proc/net/pktgen/pgctrl, and then using the pktgen package in conjunction with a bridge device for a VLAN interface.
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=751006
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/550fd08c2cebad61c548def135f67aba284c6162
- http://downloads.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100156038
- [oss-security] 20111121 CVE-2011-4112 kernel: null ptr deref at dev_queue_xmit+0x35/0x4d0mailing-list
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=550fd08c2cebad61c548def135f67aba284c6162
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1
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