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DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9914

Race condition in the ip4_datagram_release_cb function in net/ipv4/datagram.c in the Linux kernel before 3.15.2 allows local users to gain privileges...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

Race condition in the ip4_datagram_release_cb function in net/ipv4/datagram.c in the Linux kernel before 3.15.2 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) by leveraging incorrect expectations about locking during multithreaded access to internal data structures for IPv4 UDP sockets.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 linux

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.16.2-1"}]}]

Debian:13 linux

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.16.2-1"}]}]

Debian:14 linux

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.16.2-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org