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CVE-2011-1023

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
21/06/2012
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

The Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38 does not properly handle congestion map updates, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG_ON and system crash) via vectors involving (1) a loopback (aka loop) transmit operation or (2) an InfiniBand (aka ib) transmit operation.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.90 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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

Base Score 2.0
4.90
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2.6.37.6 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.37:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.37:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.37:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.37:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.37:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.37:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.37.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.37.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.37.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.37.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.37.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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