CVE-2011-4604

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-06-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The bat_socket_read function in net/batman-adv/icmp_socket.c in the Linux kernel before 3.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted batman-adv ICMP packet.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 3.2.46; 3.2, 3.2-rc2, 3.2-rc3, 3.2-rc4, 3.2-rc5, 3.2-rc6 (+46)

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b5a1eeef04cc7859f34dec9b72ea1b28e4aba07c
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-06/msg00005.html
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.3.bz2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/12/1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=767495
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b5a1eeef04cc7859f34dec9b72ea1b28e4aba07c
https://lists.open-mesh.org/pipermail/b.a.t.m.a.n/2011-December/005904.html
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b5a1eeef04cc7859f34dec9b72ea1b28e4aba07c
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-06/msg00005.html
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.3.bz2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/12/1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=767495

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