CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-1598
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-05-09
- 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
The bcm_release function in net/can/bcm.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39-rc6 does not properly validate a socket data structure, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted release operation.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.39)
• linux linux kernel 2.6.39
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=c6914a6f261aca0c9f715f883a353ae7ff51fe83 git.kernel.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/20/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/20/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/20/7 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/21/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/21/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/21/7 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/22/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/25/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/192898 Broken Link
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.39-rc6 Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47503 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698057 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c6914a6f261aca0c9f715f883a353ae7ff51fe83 git.kernel.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/20/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/20/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/20/7 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/21/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/21/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/21/7 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/22/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/25/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/192898 Broken Link
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.39-rc6 Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47503 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698057 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory