PT-2012-1994 · Linux+1 · Linux Kernel+1

Dan Rosenberg · Published 2012-06-21 · Updated 2023-02-13 · CVE-2011-4913

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.39

Description The issue is related to the rose parse ccitt function in the Linux kernel, which does not validate certain fields. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or conduct stack-based buffer overflow attacks via specially crafted data sent to a ROSE socket.

Recommendations For Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.39, update to version 2.6.39 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-4913

DSA-2240-1

DSA-2264-1

Affected Products

Linux Kernel

Suse

References · 7

• 🔥 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/be20250c13f88375345ad99950190685eda51eb8 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4913 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=be20250c13f88375345ad99950190685eda51eb8 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770777 · Note
• http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/28/2 · Note