CVE-2011-1023
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.
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 41% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.38
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6094628bfd94323fc1cea05ec2c6affd98c18f7f
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/03/2
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680345
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6094628bfd94323fc1cea05ec2c6affd98c18f7f