CVE-2014-2568

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nfqnl_zcopy function in net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue_core.c in the Linux kernel through 3.13.6 allows attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by leveraging the absence of a certain orphaning operation. NOTE: the affected code was moved to the skb_zerocopy function in net/core/skbuff.c before the vulnerability was announced.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/91922

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1079012

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2240-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66348

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/20/16

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/627

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3