4.9 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.3%
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.