Vulnerability in Linux Kernel

CVE-2011-1023

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.

EPSS: 0.005 (39.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.