Denial of Service Vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

CVE-2011-3593 · MEDIUM Severity

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

A certain Red Hat patch to the vlan_hwaccel_do_receive function in net/8021q/vlan_core.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.32 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via priority-tagged VLAN frames.

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