CVE-2011-2942 Information

Description

A certain Red Hat patch to the __br_deliver function in net/bridge/br_forward.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging connectivity to a network interface that uses an Ethernet bridge device.

Reference

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/24/3 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730917