CVE-2011-0695

CVE Details

Release Date:	2011-03-15
Impact:	Important	What is this?

Description

Race condition in the cm_work_handler function in the InfiniBand driver (drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c) in Linux kernel 2.6.x allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) by sending an InfiniBand request while other request handlers are still running, which triggers an invalid pointer dereference.

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	5.7
Vector String:	AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Adjacent Network
Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel)	ELSA-2011-0927	2011-07-18
Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2011-2014	2011-04-14
Oracle Linux version 5 (ocfs2-2.6.18-238.19.1.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2011-0927	2011-07-18
Oracle Linux version 5 (ofa-2.6.32-100.28.11.el5)	ELSA-2011-2014	2011-04-14
Oracle Linux version 5 (oracleasm-2.6.18-238.19.1.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2011-0927	2011-07-18
Oracle Linux version 6 (kernel)	ELSA-2011-0421	2011-04-07
Oracle Linux version 6 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2011-2014	2011-04-14