Published: 14/04/2014 Updated: 07/11/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.1 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6

VMScore: 633

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Race condition in the mac80211 subsystem in the Linux kernel prior to 3.13.7 allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via network traffic that improperly interacts with the WLAN_STA_PS_STA state (aka power-save mode), related to sta_info.c and tx.c.

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Several security issues were fixed in the kernel ...

A race condition flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's mac80211 subsystem implementation handled synchronization between TX and STA wake-up code paths A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the system ...

CWE-362 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.13.7 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1083512 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1d147bfa64293b2723c4fec50922168658e613ba https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70551#c18 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/01/8 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66591 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-10/msg00006.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-10/msg00007.html http://secunia.com/advisories/60613 http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-3052.html https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-04-01 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038201 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1d147bfa64293b2723c4fec50922168658e613ba https://nvd.nist.gov https://usn.ubuntu.com/2225-1/https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2014-2706

CVE-2014-2706

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