CVEvulnerability

CVE-2011-0695

5.7 MEDIUM Published 2011-03-15 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2011-03-15
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.7 MEDIUM — AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-362

Description

Race condition in the cm_work_handler function in the InfiniBand driver (drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c) in Linux kernel 2.6.x allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) by sending an InfiniBand request while other request handlers are still running, which triggers an invalid pointer dereference.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.0 <= 2.6.39.4) • redhat enterprise linux desktop 5.0 • redhat enterprise linux eus 5.6 • redhat enterprise linux server 5.0 • redhat enterprise linux server aus 5.6 • redhat enterprise linux workstation 5.0 • canonical ubuntu linux 8.04

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-911 Improper Update of Reference Count weakness

References