CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-1076
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-10-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
net/dns_resolver/dns_key.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38 allows remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) by not providing a valid response to a DNS query, as demonstrated by an erroneous grand.centrall.org query, which triggers improper handling of error data within a DNS resolver key.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.38)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1362fa078dae16776cd439791c6605b224ea6171 git.kernel.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/13 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1025162 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.38 Broken Link
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1362fa078dae16776cd439791c6605b224ea6171 git.kernel.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/13 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1025162 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.38 Broken Link