Bug 1155745 (CVE-2014-3688)
| Summary: | CVE-2014-3688 kernel: net: sctp: remote memory pressure from excessive queueing | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Petr Matousek <pmatouse> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | agordeev, aquini, bhu, chazlett, dhoward, esammons, fhrbata, gansalmon, iboverma, itamar, jforbes, jkacur, jonathan, jross, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, lgoncalv, lwang, madhu.chinakonda, matt, mchehab, mcressma, mguzik, nmurray, pholasek, plougher, rt-maint, rvrbovsk, williams |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: |
A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation handled the association's output queue. A remote attacker could send specially crafted packets that would cause the system to use an excessive amount of memory, leading to a denial of service.
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Story Points: | --- |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2015-01-14 00:12:20 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 1152755, 1154676, 1155746, 1155747, 1155748, 1155749, 1155750, 1155751 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 1147872 | ||
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Description
Petr Matousek
2014-10-22 18:10:43 UTC
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1155751] Statement: This issue does affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG. Future Linux kernel updates for the respective releases will address this issue. kernel-3.16.6-202.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. kernel-3.17.2-300.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. kernel-3.14.23-100.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. IssueDescription: A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation handled the association's output queue. A remote attacker could send specially crafted packets that would cause the system to use an excessive amount of memory, leading to a denial of service. This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2014:1971 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1971.html This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2014:1997 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1997.html This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 EUS - Server and Compute Node Only Via RHSA-2015:0043 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0043.html This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 EUS - Server and Compute Node Only Via RHSA-2015:0062 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0062.html This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 AUS Via RHSA-2015:0115 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0115.html |