CVE-2014-3673

Public Exploit

Description

The SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a malformed ASCONF chunk, related to net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c and net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c.

Category

7.5
CVSS
Severity: High
CVSS 3.1 •
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 9.80% Top 10%
Vendor Advisory marc.info Vendor Advisory ubuntu.com Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory ubuntu.com Vendor Advisory marc.info Vendor Advisory debian.org Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory opensuse.org
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70883 third party advisory vdb entry
http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-3087.html third party advisory
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142722450701342&w=2 vendor advisory mailing list third party advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2418-1 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-3089.html third party advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00000.html vendor advisory mailing list third party advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0062.html third party advisory vendor advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2417-1 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142722544401658&w=2 vendor advisory mailing list third party advisory
http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-3088.html third party advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3060 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9de7922bc709eee2f609cd01d98aaedc4cf5ea74 patch third party advisory exploit
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00010.html vendor advisory mailing list third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/62428 third party advisory broken link
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00025.html vendor advisory mailing list third party advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1147850 third party advisory issue tracking exploit
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9de7922bc709eee2f609cd01d98aaedc4cf5ea74
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00020.html vendor advisory mailing list third party advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0115.html third party advisory vendor advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.html vendor advisory mailing list third party advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2014-3673?
CVE-2014-3673 has been scored as a high severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2014-3673?
To fix CVE-2014-3673, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2014-3673 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2014-3673 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~10% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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