CVE-2015-1421

Description

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.

References

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

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

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2563-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2562-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2546-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2545-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2542-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2541-1

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032172

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72356

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/29/15

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

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3170

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1082.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0864.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0782.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0751.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0726.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00004.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00001.html

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=600ddd6825543962fb807884169e57b580dba208

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3