CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-2678
4.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-04-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
The rds_iw_laddr_check function in net/rds/iw.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a bind system call for an RDS socket on a system that lacks RDS transports.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 3.14)
• fedoraproject fedora 20
• oracle linux 5
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-0926-1.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-0926.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-April/131276.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59386 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60130 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60471 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/31/10 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66543 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/29/188 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-0926-1.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-0926.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-April/131276.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59386 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60130 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60471 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/31/10 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66543 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/29/188 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory