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Bug 505660 (CVE-2014-0131)

Summary: Kernel: net: use-after-free during segmentation with zerocopy (CVE-2014-0131)
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component: KernelAssignee: Gentoo Kernel Security <security-kernel>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: kernel
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2014-03-25 11:57:35 UTC 
CVE-2014-0131 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-0131):

Use-after-free vulnerability in the skb_segment function in net/core/skbuff.c in the Linux kernel through 
3.13.6 allows attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by leveraging the absence of a 
certain orphaning operation.
Comment 1 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2014-08-10 22:03:27 UTC 
CVE-2014-0131 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-0131):
  Use-after-free vulnerability in the skb_segment function in
  net/core/skbuff.c in the Linux kernel through 3.13.6 allows attackers to
  obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by leveraging the absence of
  a certain orphaning operation.