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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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2011-2910 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1256-1 Linux kernel (Natty backport) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1294-1 Linux kernel (Oneiric backport) vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T23:15:32.027Z

Reserved: 2011-07-27T00:00:00Z

Link: CVE-2011-2942

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2013-06-08T13:05:55.130

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

Link: CVE-2011-2942

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2011-2942 - Bugzilla

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