Use-after-free vulnerability in the sctp_assoc_update function in net/sctp/associola.c in the Linux kernel before 3.18.8 allows remote…

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the sctp_assoc_update function in net/sctp/associola.c in the Linux kernel before 3.18.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (slab corruption and panic) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering an INIT collision that leads to improper handling of shared-key data.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

9.8% · top 4.4% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (21)

• DSA-3170 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• USN-2542-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• USN-2562-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• USN-2546-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• RHSA-2015:1082 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• USN-2541-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• RHSA-2015:0751 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• USN-2563-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2015:0832 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/600ddd6825543962fb807884169e57b580dba208 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 1032172 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• RHSA-2015:0864 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20150129 Re: CVE request -- Linux kernel - net: sctp: slab corruption from use after free on INIT collisions (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• RHSA-2015:0782 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• USN-2545-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2015:1478 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=600ddd6825543962fb807884169e57b580dba208 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1196581 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• RHSA-2015:0726 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.18.8 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 72356 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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, 04:40 UTC.