CVE-2011-4913

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.39

Description The issue is related to the rose parse ccitt function in the Linux kernel, which does not validate certain fields. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or conduct stack-based buffer overflow attacks via specially crafted data sent to a ROSE socket.

Recommendations For Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.39, update to version 2.6.39 or later to resolve the issue.