CVE-2011-1581 Information

Description

The bond_select_queue function in drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 when a network device with a large number of receive queues is installed but the default tx_queues setting is used does not properly restrict queue indexes which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (BUG and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by sending network traffic.

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=fd0e435b0fe85622f167b84432552885a4856ac8 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/13/16 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/13/4 http://securitytracker.com/id?1025558 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696029