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CVE-2011-0695

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.7 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2011-03-15 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-362

Description

Race condition in the cm_work_handler function in the InfiniBand driver (drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c) in Linux kernel 2.6.x allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) by sending an InfiniBand request while other request handlers are still running, which triggers an invalid pointer dereference.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 8.04
• Linux kernel: from 2.6.0 through 2.6.39.4
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 5.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Eus: 5.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 5.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 5.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 5.0

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0927.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/43693
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/11/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46839
• http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-rdma/msg07447.html
• http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-rdma/msg07448.html
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1146-1
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66056
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0927.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/43693
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/11/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46839

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