Red Hat Enterprise Linux up to 5 Promiscuous Mode denial of service

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Red Hat Enterprise Linux up to 5 (Operating System). This affects an unknown code block of the component Promiscuous Mode. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

A certain Red Hat patch to the be2net implementation in the kernel package before 2.6.32-218.el6 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6, when promiscuous mode is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via non-member VLAN packets.

The weakness was released 06/08/2013 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at oss.oracle.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2011-3347. The exploitability is told to be difficult. Access to the local network is required for this attack. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 58533 (Ubuntu 11.10 : linux vulnerability (USN-1412-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Ubuntu Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 119809 (Red Hat Update for Kernel (RHSA-2011:1530)).

Upgrading to version 6 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (58533). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 64252 and 64250.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.3
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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Local: No
Remote: Partially

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Nessus ID: 58533
Nessus Name: Ubuntu 11.10 : linux vulnerability (USN-1412-1)
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OpenVAS ID: 881021
OpenVAS Name: CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2011:1386 centos5 i386
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Enterprise Linux 6
Patch: fadca7bdc43b02f518585d9547019966415cadfd

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08/30/2011 🔍
10/20/2011 +51 days 🔍
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10/23/2011 +3 days 🔍
03/30/2012 +159 days 🔍
06/08/2013 +435 days 🔍
06/08/2013 +0 days 🔍
03/24/2015 +654 days 🔍
01/03/2022 +2477 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: redhat.com

Advisory: USN-1412-1
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2011-3347 (🔍)
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Vulnerability Center: 33589 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Enterprise Linux Desktop Remote DoS Vulnerability via VLAN Packets, Medium
SecurityFocus: 50312 - Red Hat Linux Kernel CVE-2011-3347 VLAN Packets Handling Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Created: 03/24/2015 15:54
Updated: 01/03/2022 09:08
Changes: 03/24/2015 15:54 (63), 04/04/2017 11:10 (9), 01/03/2022 09:07 (6), 01/03/2022 09:08 (2)
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