CVE-2015-3332

Impact

A certain backport in the TCP Fast Open implementation for the Linux kernel before 3.18 does not properly maintain a count value, which allow local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via the Fast Open feature, as demonstrated by visiting the chrome://flags/#enable-tcp-fast-open URL when using certain 3.10.x through 3.16.x kernel builds, including longterm-maintenance releases and ckt (aka Canonical Kernel Team) builds.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/359588
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3237
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/14/14
• https://bugs.debian.org/782515
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213951
• http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/359588
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3237
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/14/14
• https://bugs.debian.org/782515
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213951