CVE-2011-0716

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-06-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The br_multicast_add_group function in net/bridge/br_multicast.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38, when a certain Ethernet bridge configuration is used, allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) by sending IGMP packets to a local interface.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 2.6.37.6; 2.6.37, 2.6.37-rc1, 2.6.37-rc2, 2.6.37-rc3, 2.6.37-rc4, 2.6.37-rc5 (+5)

References

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.38
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6b0d6a9b4296fa16a28d10d416db7a770fc03287
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/17/2
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678169
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6b0d6a9b4296fa16a28d10d416db7a770fc03287
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.38
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6b0d6a9b4296fa16a28d10d416db7a770fc03287
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/17/2
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678169
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6b0d6a9b4296fa16a28d10d416db7a770fc03287

Get alerted when CVE-2011-0716 or the next vulnerability affects your stack