Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's netdevice.h

CVE-2014-3535 · HIGH Severity

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

include/linux/netdevice.h in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36 incorrectly uses macros for netdev_printk and its related logging implementation, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) by sending invalid packets to a VxLAN interface.

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