CVE-2011-2942 (GCVE-0-2011-2942)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-06-08 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 23:15
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Summary
A certain Red Hat patch to the __br_deliver function in net/bridge/br_forward.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging connectivity to a network interface that uses an Ethernet bridge device.
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