CVE-2011-2942

Severity

68%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

106%

Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html 'CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference'

A certain Red Hat patch to the __br_deliver function in net/bridge/br_forward.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging connectivity to a network interface that uses an Ethernet bridge device.

Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html 'CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference'

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Linux

First reported 11 years ago

2013-06-08 13:05:00

Last updated 11 years ago

2013-06-10 04:00:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel 2.6.18

2.6.18

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

5

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