high
7.8
CWE
476
Advisory Published
CVE Published
Updated

CVE-2014-0101: Null Pointer Dereference

First published: Thu Feb 27 2014(Updated: )

Description of the problem: A flaw was found in the way Linux kernel processed authenticated COOKIE_ECHO chunks. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the system by sending a maliciously prepared SCTP handshake in order to trigger a NULL pointer dereference on the server. Introduced by: <a href="http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=bbd0d59809f9">http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=bbd0d59809f9</a> Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank Nokia Siemens Networks for reporting this issue.

Credit: secalert@redhat.com secalert@redhat.com

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Linux Linux kernel>=2.6.24<3.2.56
Linux Linux kernel>=3.3<3.4.84
Linux Linux kernel>=3.5<3.10.34
Linux Linux kernel>=3.11<3.12.15
Linux Linux kernel>=3.13<3.13.7
Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop=6.0
Redhat Enterprise Linux Eus=6.3
Redhat Enterprise Linux Eus=6.4
Redhat Enterprise Linux Eus=6.5
Redhat Enterprise Linux Server=6.0
Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Aus=6.4
Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Aus=6.5
Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Tus=6.5
Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation=6.0
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=10.04
F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager>=11.1.0<=11.5.3
F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager>=11.3.0<=11.5.3
F5 BIG-IP Analytics>=11.1.0<=11.5.3
F5 Big-ip Application Acceleration Manager>=11.4.0<=11.5.3
F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager>=11.1.0<=11.5.3
F5 Big-ip Edge Gateway>=11.1.0<=11.3.0
F5 Big-ip Enterprise Manager>=2.1.0<=2.3.0
F5 Big-ip Enterprise Manager>=3.0.0<=3.1.1
F5 Big-ip Global Traffic Manager>=11.1.0<=11.5.3
F5 Big-ip Link Controller>=11.1.0<=11.5.3
F5 Big-ip Local Traffic Manager>=11.1.0<=11.5.3
F5 Big-ip Policy Enforcement Manager>=11.3.0<=11.5.3
F5 Big-ip Protocol Security Module>=11.1.0<=11.4.1
F5 Big-ip Wan Optimization Manager>=11.1.0<=11.3.0
F5 Big-ip Webaccelerator>=11.1.0<=11.3.0
F5 Big-iq Adc=4.5.0
F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management=4.6.0
F5 BIG-IQ Cloud>=4.0.0<=4.5.0
F5 Big-iq Device>=4.2.0<=4.5.0
F5 Big-iq Security>=4.0.0<=4.5.0
debian/linux
5.10.223-1
6.1.106-3
6.1.99-1
6.10.9-1

Remedy

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/04/6

Remedy

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1070705

Remedy

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ec0223ec48a90cb605244b45f7c62de856403729

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