CVE-2011-3593

Public on 2011-12-02

Modified on 2014-09-14

Description

A certain Red Hat patch to the vlan_hwaccel_do_receive function in net/8021q/vlan_core.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.32 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via priority-tagged VLAN frames.

Severity

Medium

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CVSS v3 Base Score

5.7

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Affected Packages

Platform	Package	Release Date	Advisory
Amazon Linux 1	kernel	2011-12-02 22:23	ALAS-2011-26

CVSS Scores

	Score Type	Score	Vector
Amazon Linux	CVSSv2	5.7	AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
NVD	CVSSv2	5.7	AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

References

Red Hat: CVE-2011-3593 Mitre: CVE-2011-3593 FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity