CVE-2011-1023

Published June 21st, 2012

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CVSS v3

N/A

CVSS v2

4.9

MEDIUM

Affected

PROJECT

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.

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