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CVE-2011-3593
A certain Red Hat patch to the vlan_hwaccel_do_receive function in net/8021q/vlan_core.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.32 on Red Hat Enterprise…
Medium5.7EPSS 1.0%
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- redhat
Description
A certain Red Hat patch to the vlan_hwaccel_do_receive function in net/8021q/vlan_core.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.32 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via priority-tagged VLAN frames.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.7 | AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.0% · top 37% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.7.
Weakness
Affected products
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References (4)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742846 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20120305 CVE-2011-3593 kernel: vlan: fix panic when handling priority tagged frames (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=redpatch.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fadca7bdc43b02f518585d9547019966415cadfd (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=redpatch.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0e48f8daac293335e16e007663b9f4d248f89f0c (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
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