CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-9914

7.8 HIGH Published 2017-02-07 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-02-07
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-362, CWE-416

Description

Race condition in the ip4_datagram_release_cb function in net/ipv4/datagram.c in the Linux kernel before 3.15.2 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) by leveraging incorrect expectations about locking during multithreaded access to internal data structures for IPv4 UDP sockets.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 3.7.8 < 3.10.45) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.11 < 3.12.23) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.13 < 3.14.9) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.15 < 3.15.2) • google android (<= 7.1.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
  • CWE-416 Use After Free weakness

References