CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-9715

4.9 MEDIUM Published 2015-05-27 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-05-27
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_extend.h in the netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.14.5 uses an insufficiently large data type for certain extension data, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) via outbound network traffic that triggers extension loading, as demonstrated by configuring a PPTP tunnel in a NAT environment.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 3.14.4)

References