CVE-2014-2672

Summary

Race condition in the ath_tx_aggr_sleep function in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a large amount of network traffic that triggers certain list deletions.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• n/a

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70551
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/21f8aaee0c62708654988ce092838aa7df4d25d8
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/30/5
• https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.12.15
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.13.7
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=21f8aaee0c62708654988ce092838aa7df4d25d8
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66492
• http://secunia.com/advisories/57468

References

• https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70551
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/21f8aaee0c62708654988ce092838aa7df4d25d8
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/30/5
• https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.12.15
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.13.7
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=21f8aaee0c62708654988ce092838aa7df4d25d8
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66492
• http://secunia.com/advisories/57468

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