CVE-2011-1023 (GCVE-0-2011-1023)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-06-21 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 22:14
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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| https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6094628b… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
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| http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvald… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680345 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
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