CVE-2014-2678

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-04-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-476

Description

The rds_iw_laddr_check function in net/rds/iw.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a bind system call for an RDS socket on a system that lacks RDS transports.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 20
Linux kernel: through 3.14
Oracle Corporation Oracle Linux: 5

References

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-0926-1.html
http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-0926.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-April/131276.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/59386
http://secunia.com/advisories/60130
http://secunia.com/advisories/60471
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/31/10
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66543
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/29/188
http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-0926-1.html
http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-0926.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-April/131276.html

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