SB2014040114 - Race condition in Linux kernel
Published: April 1, 2014 Updated: August 10, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2014040114
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2014-2672)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Race condition in the ath_tx_aggr_sleep function in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a large amount of network traffic that triggers certain list deletions.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=21f8aaee0c62708654988ce092838aa7df4d25d8
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57468
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.13.7
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/30/5
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66492
- https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70551
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/21f8aaee0c62708654988ce092838aa7df4d25d8
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.12.15