CVE-2015-3332 (GCVE-0-2015-3332)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-05-27 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 05:47
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
5 references
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|---|---|
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/0… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213951 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3237 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN |
| https://bugs.debian.org/782515 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/359588 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
Date Public
2015-04-14 00:00
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