The Generic Receive Offload (GRO) implementation in the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 2.6.32 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) Hypervisor and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted VLAN packets that are processed by the napi_reuse_skb function, leading to (1) a memory leak or (2) memory corruption, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1478.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2011-08-31T23:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T22:28:41.877Z

Reserved: 2011-04-05T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2011-1576

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2011-08-31T23:55:01.737

Modified: 2023-02-13T01:19:16.737

Link: CVE-2011-1576

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2011-06-06T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2011-1576 - Bugzilla