Vulnerability in Linux Kernel

CVE-2011-3593

A certain Red Hat patch to the vlan_hwaccel_do_receive function in net/8021q/vlan_core.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.32 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via priority-tagged VLAN frames.

EPSS: 0.010 (59.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Linux Linux_kernel — versions 2.6.32
Redhat Enterprise_linux — versions 6.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-399

References

secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
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