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CVE-2011-1023

Published: Jun 21, 2012

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

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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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6094628bfd94323fc1cea05ec2c6affd98c18f7f

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[oss-security] 20110303 CVE-2011-1023 kernel: rds: prevent BUG_ON triggering on congestion map updates

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http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.38

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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6094628bfd94323fc1cea05ec2c6affd98c18f7f

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680345

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