CVE-2011-1576

MediumCVSS 5.7/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

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

Weakness enumeration

CWE-119

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Aug 31, 2011
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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