CVE-2011-2942

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…

published June 8, 2013

CVSS
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EPSS
2%
Percentile
78.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01786 · 78.2th percentile
Published
2013-06-08T10:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 08 JUN 10:00Z
    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…
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