CVEvulnerability

CVE-2011-1576

5.7 MEDIUM Published 2011-08-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2011-08-31
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-119

Description

The Generic Receive Offload (GRO) implementation in the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 2.6.32 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) Hypervisor and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted VLAN packets that are processed by the napi_reuse_skb function, leading to (1) a memory leak or (2) memory corruption, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1478.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 2.6.18 • redhat enterprise linux 5 • redhat enterprise virtualization hypervisor • redhat enterprise linux 6.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References