CVE-2011-3593: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.7. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A certain Red Hat patch to the vlan_hwaccel_do_receive function in net/8021q/vlan_core.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.32 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via priority-tagged VLAN frames.

Affected products

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

Published 2013-06-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.