Published: 23/10/2011 Updated: 13/02/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.7 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 5.5

VMScore: 508

Vector: AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

The napi_reuse_skb function in net/core/dev.c in the Generic Receive Offload (GRO) implementation in the Linux kernel prior to 2.6.38 does not reset the values of certain structure members, which might allow remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a malformed VLAN frame.

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Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or privilege escalation The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2010-3875 Vasiliy Kulikov discovered an issue in the Linux implementation of the Amateur Radio AX25 Level 2 protocol Local u ...

Multiple kernel flaws have been fixed ...

Several security issues were fixed in the kernel ...

Multiple kernel vulnerabilities have been fixed ...

Multiple kernel flaws have been fixed ...

Multiple kernel vulnerabilities have been fixed ...

Multiple kernel flaws have been fixed ...

Ubuntu Security Notice 1202-1 - Dan Rosenberg discovered that several network ioctls did not clear kernel memory correctly A local user could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy Brad Spengler discovered that stack memory for new a process was not correctly calculated A local attacker could exploit this to crash ...

CWE-476 http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.38 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691270 http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/28/1 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8480 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6d152e23ad1a7a5b40fef1f42e017d66e6115159 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=66c46d741e2e60f0e8b625b80edb0ab820c46d7a https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-2240 https://usn.ubuntu.com/1204-1/

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