CVE-2011-1576 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2011-1576?

CVE-2011-1576 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 31 Aug 2011. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Generic Receive Offload (GRO) implementation in the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 2.6.32 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) Hypervisor and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted VLAN packets that are processed by the napi_reuse_skb function, leading to (1) a memory leak or (2) memory corruption, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1478.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-1576?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Linux kernel, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Redhat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor.

How do I fix CVE-2011-1576?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2011-1576 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-1576 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-mvmx-96hj-8h74, RHSA-2011:1106.