CVE-2011-1493

Linux Kernel < 2.6.39 - Denial of Service via ROSE FAC_NATIONAL_DIGIS Data

Title source: llm

Description

Array index error in the rose_parse_national function in net/rose/rose_subr.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by composing FAC_NATIONAL_DIGIS data that specifies a large number of digipeaters, and then sending this data to a ROSE socket.

References (6)

Core 6

Core References

Exploit, Patch x_refsource_confirm

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/be20250c13f88375345ad99950190685eda51eb8

Patch x_refsource_confirm

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=be20250c13f88375345ad99950190685eda51eb8

Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770777

Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/05/19

Various Sources x_refsource_confirm

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0336

EPSS Percentile 87.6%

Details

Status published

Products (9)

linux/linux_kernel 2.6.38 (9 CPE variants)

linux/linux_kernel 2.6.38.1

linux/linux_kernel 2.6.38.2

linux/linux_kernel 2.6.38.3

linux/linux_kernel 2.6.38.4

linux/linux_kernel 2.6.38.5

linux/linux_kernel 2.6.38.6

linux/linux_kernel 2.6.38.7

linux/linux_kernel < 2.6.38.8

Published Jun 21, 2012

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026