Vulnerability in Red Hat Linux Kernel 2.6.18 Allows Remote Denial of Service

CVE-2011-2942 · MEDIUM Severity

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

A certain Red Hat patch to the __br_deliver function in net/bridge/br_forward.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging connectivity to a network interface that uses an Ethernet bridge device.

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