CVE-2013-2017

Publication date

2013-05-03 10:00:00

Family

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.