Bug 1163087 (CVE-2014-7841)
| Summary: | CVE-2014-7841 kernel: net: sctp: NULL pointer dereference in af->from_addr_param on malformed packet | ||
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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: | aquini, bhu, dhoward, fhrbata, gansalmon, iboverma, itamar, jforbes, jkacur, jonathan, jross, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, lgoncalv, madhu.chinakonda, matt, mchehab, mcressma, nmurray, 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 SCTP implementation validated INIT chunks when performing Address Configuration Change (ASCONF). A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the system by sending a specially crafted SCTP packet to trigger a NULL pointer dereference on the system.
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2019-06-08 02:36:03 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: | 1153980, 1154002, 1163090, 1163092, 1163093, 1163094, 1163095, 1163097 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 1163098 | ||
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Description
Petr Matousek
2014-11-12 11:08:12 UTC
Statement: This issue does not affect the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This issue does affect the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2. Future kernel updates for the respective releases may address this issue. Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1163095] kernel-3.17.3-300.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. kernel-3.17.3-200.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. kernel-3.14.27-100.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2015:0087 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0087.html This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2015:0102 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0102.html This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 EUS - Server and Compute Node Only Via RHSA-2015:0285 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0285.html This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 EUS - Server and Compute Node Only Via RHSA-2015:0284 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0284.html This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 AUS Via RHSA-2015:0695 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0695.html |