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HistoryMay 18, 2011 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2011-1927

2011-05-1800:00:00
ubuntu.com
ubuntu.com
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5 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.008 Low

EPSS

Percentile

81.6%

The ip_expire function in net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c in the Linux kernel before
2.6.39 does not properly construct ICMP_TIME_EXCEEDED packets after a
timeout, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
(invalid pointer dereference) via crafted fragmented packets.

Bugs

Notes

Author Note
jdstrand 2.6.38 only?
apw this report and the fix overlapped with each other commit below was identified as the fix: 64f3b9e203bd06855072e295557dca1485a2ecba

5 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.008 Low

EPSS

Percentile

81.6%