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CVE-2014-2672
Race condition in the ath_tx_aggr_sleep function in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.7 allows remote…
High7.1EPSS 2.7%
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- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Race condition in the ath_tx_aggr_sleep function in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a large amount of network traffic that triggers certain list deletions.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.1 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.7% · top 14% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.1.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (8)
- https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70551 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/21f8aaee0c62708654988ce092838aa7df4d25d8 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20140330 Re: CVE request: Linux Kernel, two security issues (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.12.15 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.13.7 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=21f8aaee0c62708654988ce092838aa7df4d25d8 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 66492 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 57468 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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