CVE-2011-0714

Description

From CVE.org

Use-after-free vulnerability in a certain Red Hat patch for the RPC server sockets functionality in the Linux kernel 2.6.32 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via malformed data in a packet, related to lockd and the svc_xprt_received function.

Statement

This issue only affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 as we did not properly backport upstream commit b48fa6b9. The versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and Red Hat Enterprise MRG are not affected.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details

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CVSS v2 Score Breakdown

Red HatNVDcve.org
Base Score5.75.7N/A
Attack VectorAdjacent NetworkAdjacent NetworkN/A
Access ComplexityMediumMediumN/A
AuthenticationNoneNoneN/A
Confidentiality ImpactNoneNoneN/A
Integrity ImpactNoneNoneN/A
Availability ImpactCompleteCompleteN/A

Vector

Red Hat: AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

NVD: AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Adam Prince for reporting this issue.

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