CVE-2014-2568 (GCVE-0-2014-2568)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-03-24 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 10:21
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1079012 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2240-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66348 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://secunia.com/advisories/59599 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/627 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/0… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
Date Public
2014-03-20 00:00
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