CVE-2014-3535

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-09-28 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

include/linux/netdevice.h in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36 incorrectly uses macros for netdev_printk and its related logging implementation, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) by sending invalid packets to a VxLAN interface.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 2.6.35.13; 2.6.35, 2.6.35-rc1, 2.6.35-rc2, 2.6.35-rc3, 2.6.35-rc4, 2.6.35-rc5 (+13)

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=256df2f3879efdb2e9808bdb1b54b16fbb11fa38
http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69721
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1114540
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/256df2f3879efdb2e9808bdb1b54b16fbb11fa38
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=256df2f3879efdb2e9808bdb1b54b16fbb11fa38
http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69721
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1114540
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/256df2f3879efdb2e9808bdb1b54b16fbb11fa38

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