CVE-2011-1576 Information

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.

Reference

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0927.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1090.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1106.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48907 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025853 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695173