FKIE_CVE-2011-4112

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2012-05-17 11:00 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:34
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
The net subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.1 does not properly restrict use of the IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING flag, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability to access /proc/net/pktgen/pgctrl, and then using the pktgen package in conjunction with a bridge device for a VLAN interface.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://downloads.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100156038Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=550fd08c2cebad61c548def135f67aba284c6162
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/21/4Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=751006Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/550fd08c2cebad61c548def135f67aba284c6162Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://downloads.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100156038Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=550fd08c2cebad61c548def135f67aba284c6162
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/21/4Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=751006Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/550fd08c2cebad61c548def135f67aba284c6162Patch, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
avaya 9608_firmware *
avaya 9608 -
avaya 9608g_firmware *
avaya 9608g -
avaya 9611g_firmware *
avaya 9611g -
avaya 9621g_firmware *
avaya 9621g -
avaya 9641g_firmware *
avaya 9641g -
avaya 9641gs_firmware *
avaya 9641gs -
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