Vulnerability in Linux Kernel
CVE-2014-7207
A certain Debian patch to the IPv6 implementation in the Linux kernel 3.2.x through 3.2.63 does not properly validate arguments in ipv6_select_ident function calls, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) by leveraging (1) tun or (2) macvtap device access.
EPSS: 0.004 (30.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Linux Linux_kernel — versions 3.2, 3.2.1, 3.2.2
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- security@debian.org (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory)
- security@debian.org (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory)
- security@debian.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)
- security@debian.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
- security@debian.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- security@debian.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)