CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-3332
4.9 MEDIUM
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- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
A certain backport in the TCP Fast Open implementation for the Linux kernel before 3.18 does not properly maintain a count value, which allow local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via the Fast Open feature, as demonstrated by visiting the chrome://flags/#enable-tcp-fast-open URL when using certain 3.10.x through 3.16.x kernel builds, including longterm-maintenance releases and ckt (aka Canonical Kernel Team) builds.
Affected configurations
• debian debian linux
• linux linux kernel (<= 3.17.8)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/359588 article.gmane.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3237 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/14/14 www.openwall.com
- https://bugs.debian.org/782515 bugs.debian.org
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213951 bugzilla.redhat.com
- http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/359588 article.gmane.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3237 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/14/14 www.openwall.com
- https://bugs.debian.org/782515 bugs.debian.org
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213951 bugzilla.redhat.com