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CVE-2015-1421
critical
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the sctp_assoc_update function in net/sctp/associola.c in the Linux kernel before 3.18.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (slab corruption and panic) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering an INIT collision that leads to improper handling of shared-key data.
References
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/600ddd6825543962fb807884169e57b580dba208
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1196581
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2563-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2562-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2546-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2545-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2542-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2541-1
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032172
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72356
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/29/15
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3170
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1082.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0864.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0782.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0751.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0726.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00001.html