Vulnerability Details CVE-2011-2942
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.003
EPSS Ranking 56.1%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v2 Score 6.8
References
Products affected by CVE-2011-2942
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.18
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cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5