National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-1576

Overview

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

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

By selecting these links, you will be leaving NIST webspace. We have provided these links to other web sites because they may have information that would be of interest to you. No inferences should be drawn on account of other sites being referenced, or not, from this page. There may be other web sites that are more appropriate for your purpose. NIST does not necessarily endorse the views expressed, or concur with the facts presented on these sites. Further, NIST does not endorse any commercial products that may be mentioned on these sites. Please address comments about this page to nvd@nist.gov.

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695173

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695173

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1025853

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025853

External Source: BID

Name: 48907

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48907

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2011:1106

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1106.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2011:1090

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1090.html