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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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2011-1040 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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T22:14:27.170Z

Reserved: 2011-02-14T00:00:00Z

Link: CVE-2011-1023

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2012-06-21T23:55:01.943

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2011-1023

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2011-03-02T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2011-1023 - Bugzilla

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