CVE-2015-1421

Severity

99%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

165%

Use-after-free vulnerability in the sctp_assoc_update function in net/sctp/associola.c in the Linux kernel before 3.18.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (slab corruption and panic) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering an INIT collision that leads to improper handling of shared-key data.

CWE-416: Use After Free

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.9. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 9 years ago

2015-03-16 10:59:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2018-01-05 02:29:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=600ddd6825543962fb807884169e57b580dba208

SUSE-SU-2015:0832

SUSE-SU-2015:1478

RHSA-2015:0726

RHSA-2015:0751

RHSA-2015:0782

RHSA-2015:0864

RHSA-2015:1082

DSA-3170

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.18.8

Vendor Advisory

[oss-security] 20150129 Re: CVE request -- Linux kernel - net: sctp: slab corruption from use after free on INIT collisions

72356

1032172

USN-2541-1

USN-2542-1

USN-2545-1

USN-2546-1

USN-2562-1

USN-2563-1

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1196581

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/600ddd6825543962fb807884169e57b580dba208

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