CVE-2014-2568
LOW severity · CVSS 2.9 · Use-after-free
2.9CVSS LOW
Summary
Use-after-free vulnerability in the nfqnl_zcopy function in net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue_core.c in the Linux kernel through 3.13.6 allows attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by leveraging the absence of a certain orphaning operation. NOTE: the affected code was moved to the skb_zerocopy function in net/core/skbuff.c before the vulnerability was announced.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorAdjacent
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)1%
AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/20/16 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/20/16Patch
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/627Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59599
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66348Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2240-1Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1079012Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/91922Advisory
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/20/421Advisory