Resource management error in Linux kernel - CVE-2014-3673
Published: November 10, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU41146
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-3673
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a malformed ASCONF chunk, related to net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c and net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c.
Affected software
Linux kernel
Fedora
kernel
Fedora
kernel
How to mitigate CVE-2014-3673
Install update from vendor's website.
kernel - addressed in versions 3.17.1-303.fc21, 3.17.1-304.fc21, 3.17.2-300.fc21
External References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9de7922bc709eee2f609cd01d98aaedc4cf5ea74
- http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-3087.html
- http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-3088.html
- http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-3089.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00010.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00020.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00025.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142722450701342&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142722544401658&w=2
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0062.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0115.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62428
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3060
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70883
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2417-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2418-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1147850
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9de7922bc709eee2f609cd01d98aaedc4cf5ea74