Veracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:24664Denial Of Service (DoS)
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
kernel is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS). The vulnerability exists as a flaw was found in the transmit methods (xmit) for the loopback and InfiniBand transports in the Linux kernel’s Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS).
References
docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html-single/6.1_Release_Notes/index.html
docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html-single/6.1_Technical_Notes/index.html
ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.38
git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6094628bfd94323fc1cea05ec2c6affd98c18f7f
git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6094628bfd94323fc1cea05ec2c6affd98c18f7f
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/03/2
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011:0542
access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680345
github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6094628bfd94323fc1cea05ec2c6affd98c18f7f
Related
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