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CVE-2011-1576 (GCVE-0-2011-1576)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-08-31 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 22:28
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Summary
The Generic Receive Offload (GRO) implementation in the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 2.6.32 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) Hypervisor and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted VLAN packets that are processed by the napi_reuse_skb function, leading to (1) a memory leak or (2) memory corruption, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1478.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-11… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
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http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025853 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
Date Public
2011-07-27 00:00
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