National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-3359

Overview

The dma_rx function in drivers/net/wireless/b43/dma.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not properly allocate receive buffers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted frame.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c85ce65ecac078ab1a1835c87c4a6319cf74660a

Type: Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c85ce65ecac078ab1a1835c87c4a6319cf74660a

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c85ce65ecac078ab1a1835c87c4a6319cf74660a

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c85ce65ecac078ab1a1835c87c4a6319cf74660a

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738202

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738202

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110914 Re: CVE request -- kernel: b43: allocate receive buffers big enough for max frame len + offset

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/14/2

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39

Hyperlink:http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39