CVE-2011-1023

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 1
Downstream
RHSA-2011:0542
Modified
Published: 21 Jun 2012, 23:00
Last modified:06 Aug 2024, 22:14

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
30/100
CVSS Score
4.9 MEDIUM
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.15% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
1 found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

21 Jun 2012, 23:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
06 Aug 2024, 22:14
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 4.9AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.15%• Percentile: 35%

Affected Systems

  • linux•linux_kernel

    ≤ 2.6.37.6 | 2.6.37 | 2.6.37:rc1 | 2.6.37:rc2 | 2.6.37:rc3 | 2.6.37:rc4 | 2.6.37:rc5 | 2.6.37.1 | 2.6.37.2 | 2.6.37.3 | 2.6.37.4 | 2.6.37.5

References (5)