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Tracker / CVE-2014-2851

CVE-2014-2851

Medium 6.9

Integer overflow in the ping_init_sock function in net/ipv4/ping.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and system crash) or possibly gain privileges via a crafted application that leverages an improperly managed reference counter.

Affected products and versions

debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 3.0 → 3.2.60
linux linux_kernel · 3.11 → 3.12.19
linux linux_kernel · 3.13 → 3.14.5
linux linux_kernel · 3.3 → 3.4.92
linux linux_kernel · 3.5 → 3.10.41

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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