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CVE-2011-3593
A certain Red Hat patch to the vlan_hwaccel_do_receive function in net/8021q/vlan_core.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.32 on Red Hat Enterprise…
Medium5.7EPSS 1.0%
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- redhat
Description
A certain Red Hat patch to the vlan_hwaccel_do_receive function in net/8021q/vlan_core.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.32 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via priority-tagged VLAN frames.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 21 months later
· 21 months later
Published
- 11 years later
· 11 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.7 | AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.0% · top 37% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.7.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (4)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742846 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20120305 CVE-2011-3593 kernel: vlan: fix panic when handling priority tagged frames (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=redpatch.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fadca7bdc43b02f518585d9547019966415cadfd (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=redpatch.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0e48f8daac293335e16e007663b9f4d248f89f0c (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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