CVE-2011-0695 Race condition in n/a

Medium 5.7 Published Updated

Remote attackers can cause a kernel panic and denial of service via a race condition in the InfiniBand driver.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2011-0695?

CVE-2011-0695 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 15 Mar 2011. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-0695?

It affects 7 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Linux kernel, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Eus, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Aus and 1 more.

How do I fix CVE-2011-0695?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2011-0695 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-0695 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-297p-pfx7-4599.

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