CVE-2014-3688

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-11-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.17.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering a large number of chunks in an association's output queue, as demonstrated by ASCONF probes, related to net/sctp/inqueue.c and net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 3.17.3; 3.0-rc1, 3.0-rc2, 3.0-rc3, 3.0-rc4, 3.0-rc5, 3.0-rc6 (+187)

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=26b87c7881006311828bb0ab271a551a62dcceb4
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00010.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00025.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00015.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142722450701342&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142722544401658&w=2
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0062.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0115.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3060
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.17.4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/13/8

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