CVE-2013-2017 Information

Description

The veth (aka virtual Ethernet) driver in the Linux kernel before 2.6.34 does not properly manage skbs during congestion which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) by leveraging lack of skb consumption in conjunction with a double-free error.

Reference

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.34 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6ec82562ffc6f297d0de36d65776cff8e5704867 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/29/10 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=957705 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6ec82562ffc6f297d0de36d65776cff8e5704867 https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K39655464