CVE-2011-4087

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The br_parse_ip_options function in net/bridge/br_netfilter.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not properly initialize a certain data structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by leveraging connectivity to a network interface that uses an Ethernet bridge device.

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Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the Linux kernels as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6 as they did not backport the upstream commit 462fb2af that introduced this issue. It did not affect the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise MRG as it has already backported the upstream patches f8e9881c, 66944e1c, c65353da, and 10949550 that addressed this issue.

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