Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's bond_select_queue Function

CVE-2011-1581 · HIGH Severity

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

The bond_select_queue function in drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39, when a network device with a large number of receive queues is installed but the default tx_queues setting is used, does not properly restrict queue indexes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (BUG and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by sending network traffic.

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