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CVE-2011-1927

Published: Jun 13, 2012

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

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Description

The ip_expire function in net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not properly construct ICMP_TIME_EXCEEDED packets after a timeout, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference) via crafted fragmented packets.

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

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/64f3b9e203bd06855072e295557dca1485a2ecba

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[oss-security] 20110518 Re: CVE request: kernel: net: ip_expire() must revalidate route

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

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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=64f3b9e203bd06855072e295557dca1485a2ecba

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