CVE-2011-1478

La función napi_reuse_skb de net/core/dev.c en la implementación Generic Receive Offload (GRO) en el kernel de Linux anteriores a v2.6.38 no restablece los valores de algunos miembros de la estructura, lo que podría permitir a atacantes remotos provocar una denegación de servicio (puntero a NULL) a través de una manupulación de una trama VLAN.

It was discovered that KVM did not correctly initialize certain CPU registers. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. Thomas Pollet discovered that the RDS network protocol did not check certain iovec buffers. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system or possibly execute arbitrary code as the root user. Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Linux kernel X.25 implementation did not correctly clear kernel memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. Various other issues were also addressed.