Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 8, 2013· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2011-2942
CVE-2011-2942
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.
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Affected products
3- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- Range: 5
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