CVE-2013-2017 (GCVE-0-2013-2017)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2013-05-03 10:00
Modified
2024-08-06 15:20
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
The veth (aka virtual Ethernet) driver in the Linux kernel before 2.6.34 does not properly manage skbs during congestion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) by leveraging lack of skb consumption in conjunction with a double-free error.
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