CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-1478
5.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-10-23
- 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-476
Description
The napi_reuse_skb function in net/core/dev.c in the Generic Receive Offload (GRO) implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38 does not reset the values of certain structure members, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a malformed VLAN frame.
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=66c46d741e2e60f0e8b625b80edb0ab820c46d7a git.kernel.org
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6d152e23ad1a7a5b40fef1f42e017d66e6115159 git.kernel.org
- http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.38 Broken Link
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/28/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 Third Party Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8480 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691270 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=66c46d741e2e60f0e8b625b80edb0ab820c46d7a git.kernel.org
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6d152e23ad1a7a5b40fef1f42e017d66e6115159 git.kernel.org
- http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.38 Broken Link
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/28/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 Third Party Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8480 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691270 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory