CVE-2015-1421
HIGH severity · CVSS 10
10CVSS HIGH
Summary
Use-after-free vulnerability in the sctp_assoc_update function in net/sctp/associola.c in the Linux kernel before 3.18.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (slab corruption and panic) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering an INIT collision that leads to improper handling of shared-key data.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)10%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=600ddd6825543962fb807884169e57b580dba208
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00001.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00004.htmlAdvisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0726.htmlAdvisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0751.htmlAdvisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0782.htmlAdvisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0864.htmlAdvisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1082.htmlAdvisory