Bug 508792 (CVE-2014-2851)

Summary:	Kernel: net: ping: refcount issue in ping_init_sock() function (CVE-2014-2851)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component:	Kernel	Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Security <security-kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	kernel
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2014-04-26 14:32:49 UTC

CVE-2014-2851 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-2851):

Integer overflow in the ping_init_sock function in net/ipv4/ping.c in the Linux kernel through 
3.14.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and system crash) or 
possibly gain privileges via a crafted application that leverages an improperly managed reference 
counter.

Comment 1 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2014-08-10 21:55:33 UTC

CVE-2014-2851 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-2851):
  Integer overflow in the ping_init_sock function in net/ipv4/ping.c in the
  Linux kernel through 3.14.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service
  (use-after-free and system crash) or possibly gain privileges via a crafted
  application that leverages an improperly managed reference counter.

Comment 2 John Helmert III archtester

2022-03-25 21:59:56 UTC

Fix in 3.15 as b04c46190219a4f845e46a459e3102137b7f6cac