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

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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