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CVE-2011-1023

Medium
4.9/10

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.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • COMPLETE

References

Advisory Timeline

  • Published