Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) Subsystem

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) Subsystem

CVE-2011-1023 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38 does not properly handle congestion map updates, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG_ON and system crash) via vectors involving (1) a loopback (aka loop) transmit operation or (2) an InfiniBand (aka ib) transmit operation.

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