CVE-2011-1478

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Summary

CVECVE-2011-1478
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2011-10-23 10:55:02 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5.7 from [email protected]

AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Problem Types: CWE-476 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Adjacent
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Complete

AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-security - CVE-2011-1478 kernel: gro: reset dev and skb_iff on skb reuse af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
mirror.anl.gov/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.38 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 mirror.anl.gov Broken Link
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
About Secunia Research | Flexera af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
VMSA-2011-0012.2 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vmware.com Third Party Advisory
CXSecurity - IDS af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securityreason.com Third Party Advisory
git.kernel.org af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 git.kernel.org
Bug 691270 – CVE-2011-1478 kernel: gro: reset dev and skb_iff on skb reuse af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 git.kernel.org
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree MITRE git.kernel.org
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree MITRE git.kernel.org
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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