CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-2851
6.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-04-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
Integer overflow in the ping_init_sock function in net/ipv4/ping.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and system crash) or possibly gain privileges via a crafted application that leverages an improperly managed reference counter.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.0 < 3.2.60)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.3 < 3.4.92)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.5 < 3.10.41)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.11 < 3.12.19)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.13 < 3.14.5)
• linux linux kernel 3.0
• debian debian linux 7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59386 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59599 Broken Link
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2926 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/11/4 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66779 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030769 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1086730 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=b04c46190219a4f845e46a459e3102137b7f6cac Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/10/736 Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59386 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59599 Broken Link
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2926 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/11/4 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66779 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030769 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1086730 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=b04c46190219a4f845e46a459e3102137b7f6cac Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/10/736 Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory