CVEvulnerability

CVE-2011-1770

7.5 HIGH Published 2011-06-24 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2011-06-24
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-191

Description

Integer underflow in the dccp_parse_options function (net/dccp/options.c) in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33.14 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) packet with an invalid feature options length, which triggers a buffer over-read.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.33.14) • fedoraproject fedora 14 • fedoraproject fedora 15

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-191 Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound) weakness

References