CVE-2011-2534

Description

From CVE.org

Buffer overflow in the clusterip_proc_write function in net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_CLUSTERIP.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 might allow local users to cause a denial of service or have unspecified other impact via a crafted write operation, related to string data that lacks a terminating '\0' character.

Statement

This issue did not affect the version of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 as it did not have support for ipt_CLUSTERIP. This has been addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and Red Hat Enterprise MRG via http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0833.html, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0498.html, and http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0500.html.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details

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The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 Score Breakdown

Red HatNVDcve.org
Base Score47.2N/A
Attack VectorLocalLocalN/A
Access ComplexityHighLowN/A
AuthenticationNoneNoneN/A
Confidentiality ImpactNoneCompleteN/A
Integrity ImpactNoneCompleteN/A
Availability ImpactCompleteCompleteN/A

Vector

Red Hat: AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Vasiliy Kulikov (Openwall) for reporting this issue.

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