CVE-2011-2534

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2011-03-10
Bugzilla:
689337: CVE-2011-2534 ipv4: netfilter: ipt_CLUSTERIP: fix buffer overflow

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2011-2534 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

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.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 4
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Complete

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1.3 realtime-kernel Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 kernel Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel Will not fix

Acknowledgements

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

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