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high7.8

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 or cause …

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
LinuxLinux Kernel
from 3.7.8 before 3.10.45
from 3.11 before 3.12.23
from 3.13 before 3.14.9
from 3.15 before 3.15.2
GoogleAndroid
through 7.1.1

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