#VU41052 Resource management error in Linux kernel - CVE-2014-3688
Published: November 30, 2014 / Updated: August 9, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU41052
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-3688
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Linux kernel
Linux kernel
Software vendor:
Linux Foundation
Linux Foundation
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.
The SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.17.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering a large number of chunks in an association's output queue, as demonstrated by ASCONF probes, related to net/sctp/inqueue.c and net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
External links
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=26b87c7881006311828bb0ab271a551a62dcceb4
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00010.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/msg00015.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://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3060
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.17.4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/13/8
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2417-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2418-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1155745
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/26b87c7881006311828bb0ab271a551a62dcceb4