SB2014111013 - Resource management error in Linux kernel

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SB2014111013 - Resource management error in Linux kernel

Published: November 10, 2014 Updated: August 10, 2020

Security Bulletin ID SB2014111013
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2014-3673)

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a malformed ASCONF chunk, related to net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c and net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References