CVE detail
CVE-2011-1076 — CVE-2011-1076
Published 2011-10-05 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor linux · Product linux_kernel · Source nvd
UNKNOWN
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.0052
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
41.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog
Description
net/dns_resolver/dns_key.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38 allows remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) by not providing a valid response to a DNS query, as demonstrated by an erroneous grand.centrall.org query, which triggers improper handling of error data within a DNS resolver key.
Remediation
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
References