Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability in Red Hat Patch for RPC Server Sockets Functionality in Linux Kernel 2.6.32 on RHEL 6

CVE-2011-0714 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:A/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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.

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