CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-1573
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-05-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-19
Description
The nft_flush_table function in net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c in the Linux kernel before 3.18.5 mishandles the interaction between cross-chain jumps and ruleset flushes, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 3.18.4)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a2f18db0c68fec96631c10cad9384c196e9008ac Vendor Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1137.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1138.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.18.5 www.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/10/13 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72552 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1190966 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a2f18db0c68fec96631c10cad9384c196e9008ac Vendor Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a2f18db0c68fec96631c10cad9384c196e9008ac Vendor Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1137.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1138.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.18.5 www.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/10/13 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72552 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1190966 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a2f18db0c68fec96631c10cad9384c196e9008ac Vendor Advisory