CVE-2011-1478

MediumCVSS 5.7/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

The napi_reuse_skb function in net/core/dev.c in the Generic Receive Offload (GRO) implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38 does not reset the values of certain structure members, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a malformed VLAN frame.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 5.7/10AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Weakness enumeration

CWE-476

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=66c46d741e2e60f0e8b625b80edb0ab820c46d7a
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6d152e23ad1a7a5b40fef1f42e017d66e6115159
http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.38Broken Link
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/28/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/46397Third Party Advisory
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8480Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threadedThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.htmlThird Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691270Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=66c46d741e2e60f0e8b625b80edb0ab820c46d7a
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6d152e23ad1a7a5b40fef1f42e017d66e6115159
http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.38Broken Link
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/28/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/46397Third Party Advisory
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8480Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threadedThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.htmlThird Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691270Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Oct 23, 2011
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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