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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2011-1023

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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2011-1023

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
06/21/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/12/2013
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

The Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38 does not properly handle congestion map updates, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG_ON and system crash) via vectors involving (1) a loopback (aka loop) transmit operation or (2) an InfiniBand (aka ib) transmit operation.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-ofed-kmp-rt
  • suse-upgrade-suse-linux-enterprise-rt-release

References

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