CVE detail

CVE-2011-3188 — CVE-2011-3188

Published 2012-05-24 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor linux · Product linux_kernel · Source nvd

CRITICAL

severity

CVSS-derived band

9.1

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0580

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

92.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

The (1) IPv4 and (2) IPv6 implementations in the Linux kernel before 3.1 use a modified MD4 algorithm to generate sequence numbers and Fragment Identification values, which makes it easier for remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disrupted networking) or hijack network sessions by predicting these values and sending crafted packets.

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

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