CVEvulnerability

CVE-2011-2942

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2013-06-08 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2013-06-08
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

A certain Red Hat patch to the __br_deliver function in net/bridge/br_forward.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging connectivity to a network interface that uses an Ethernet bridge device.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 2.6.18 • redhat enterprise linux 5

References