net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_generic.c in the Linux kernel before 3.18 generates incorrect conntrack entries during handling of…

Description

net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_generic.c in the Linux kernel before 3.18 generates incorrect conntrack entries during handling of certain iptables rule sets for the SCTP, DCCP, GRE, and UDP-Lite protocols, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via packets with disallowed port numbers.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

5.5% · top 7.2% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-20 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-20 and its CVEs

Affected products

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  • affected n/a

References (22)

• USN-2515-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• DSA-3170 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/db29a9508a9246e77087c5531e45b2c88ec6988b (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2015:0736 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• 72061 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2015:0652 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• USN-2514-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• USN-2518-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• MDVSA-2015:057 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• RHSA-2015:0290 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• MDVSA-2015:058 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• [netfilter-devel] 20140925 [PATCH nf] netfilter: conntrack: disable generic protocol tracking (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=db29a9508a9246e77087c5531e45b2c88ec6988b (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1182059 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• RHSA-2015:0284 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20150114 CVE-2014-8160 Linux Kernel: SCTP firewalling fails until SCTP module is loaded (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2015:0529 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• USN-2517-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2015:0714 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• USN-2516-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• USN-2513-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• RHSA-2015:0674 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_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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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 13:10 UTC.