CVE-2011-1576

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-119 Buffer Errors

Publication date:

31/08/2011

Last modified:

11/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.70 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Adjacent
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

5.70

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.18:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:enterprise_virtualization_hypervisor::::::::
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.18:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:enterprise_virtualization_hypervisor::::::::
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:::::::*

CVE-2011-1576

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools