Vulnerability CVE-2014-2672
Published: 2014-04-01

Description:
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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
Linux Kernel 3.13.6 ath_tx_aggr_sleep() Local DoS
Agostino Sarubbo
30.03.2014

Type:

CWE-362

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.1/10
6.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Linux -> Linux kernel 

 References:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/21f8aaee0c62708654988ce092838aa7df4d25d8
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=21f8aaee0c62708654988ce092838aa7df4d25d8
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70551
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/30/5
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.13.7
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