CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.7. It affects Linux. It may be remotely exploitable. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2011-1576
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.7
EPSS
0.99%
Linux
Original NVD Description
The Generic Receive Offload (GRO) implementation in the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 2.6.32 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) Hypervisor and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted VLAN packets that are processed by the napi_reuse_skb function, leading to (1) a memory leak or (2) memory corruption, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1478.