CVE-2011-4914: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 8.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ROSE protocol implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not verify that certain data-length values are consistent with the amount of data sent, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via crafted data to a ROSE socket.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 2.6.38.8; version 2.6.38 only; version 2.6.38.1 only; version 2.6.38.2 only; version 2.6.38.3 only; version 2.6.38.4 only; …
• Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Server: version 10.0 only

Published 2012-06-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.