Out-of-Bounds Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,3.13.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.97% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005410
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed11 Mar 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Mar 2014

CVE-2014-2309  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 3.13.7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. The ip6_route_add function in net/ipv6/route.c in the Linux kernel through 3.13.6 does not properly count the addition of routes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a flood of ICMPv6 Router Advertisement packets.

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CVSS Base Scores

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