#VU18950 Resource management error in Linux kernel - CVE-2014-8160 

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#VU18950 Resource management error in Linux kernel - CVE-2014-8160

Published: July 1, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU18950
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-8160
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Linux kernel
Software vendor:
Linux Foundation

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass certain security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_generic.c in the Linux kernel generates incorrect conntrack entries when handling certain iptables rule sets for the SCTP, DCCP, GRE, and UDP-Lite protocols. A remote attacker can send packets with disallowed port numbers to the affected system and bypass iptables filtering rules. 


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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