CVE-2011-0714: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.7. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Use-after-free vulnerability in a certain Red Hat patch for the RPC server sockets functionality in the Linux kernel 2.6.32 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via malformed data in a packet, related to lockd and the svc_xprt_received function.

Affected products

  • Linux Linux Kernel: version 2.6.32 only
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 6.0 only

Published 2011-05-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.