Security Advisory

CVE-2013-2017

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2013-05-03 10:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 15:20:37

Assigner redhat

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

The veth (aka virtual Ethernet) driver in the Linux kernel before 2.6.34 does not properly manage skbs during congestion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) by leveraging lack of skb consumption in conjunction with a double-free error.

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