Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 21, 2012· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2011-1023
CVE-2011-1023
Description
The Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38 does not properly handle congestion map updates, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG_ON and system crash) via vectors involving (1) a loopback (aka loop) transmit operation or (2) an InfiniBand (aka ib) transmit operation.
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13cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 11 more
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=2.6.37.6
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.37:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.37.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.37.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.37.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.37.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.37.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.37:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.37:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.37:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.37:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.37:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
- Range: <2.6.38
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