CVE-2011-3347 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 4.6 Published Updated

Remote attackers can crash the system via non-member VLAN packets when promiscuous mode is enabled in the be2net kernel 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-2011-3347?

CVE-2011-3347 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Linux, published on 8 Jun 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A certain Red Hat patch to the be2net implementation in the kernel package before 2.6.32-218.el6 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6, when promiscuous mode is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via non-member VLAN packets.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-3347?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Redhat Enterprise Linux.

How do I fix CVE-2011-3347?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2011-3347 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-3347 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-hf88-fvh2-2xgw.

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