CVE-2011-1493

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

Array index error in the rose_parse_national function in net/rose/rose_subr.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by composing FAC_NATIONAL_DIGIS data that specifies a large number of digipeaters, and then sending this data to a ROSE socket.

Array index error in the rose_parse_national function in net/rose/rose_subr.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by composing FAC_NATIONAL_DIGIS data that specifies a large number of digipeaters, and then sending this data to a ROSE socket.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 12 years ago

2012-06-21 23:55:00

Last updated 9 years ago

2015-05-12 01:59:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel 2.6.38

2.6.38

Linux Kernel 2.6.38 Release Candidate 1

2.6.38

Linux Kernel 2.6.38 Release Candidate 2

2.6.38

Linux Kernel 2.6.38 Release Candidate 3

2.6.38

Linux Kernel 2.6.38 Release Candidate 4

2.6.38

Linux Kernel 2.6.38 Release Candidate 5

2.6.38

Linux Kernel 2.6.38 Release Candidate 6

2.6.38

Linux Kernel 2.6.38 Release Candidate 7

2.6.38

Linux Kernel 2.6.38 Release Candidate 8

2.6.38

Linux Kernel 2.6.38.1

2.6.38.1

Linux Kernel 2.6.38.2

2.6.38.2

Linux Kernel 2.6.38.3

2.6.38.3

Linux Kernel 2.6.38.4

2.6.38.4

Linux Kernel 2.6.38.5

2.6.38.5

Linux Kernel 2.6.38.6

2.6.38.6

Linux Kernel 2.6.38.7

2.6.38.7

Linux Kernel

References

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

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=be20250c13f88375345ad99950190685eda51eb8

SUSE-SU-2015:0812

[oss-security] 20110405 Re: CVE request: kernel: multiple issues in ROSE

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770777

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/be20250c13f88375345ad99950190685eda51eb8

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