CVE-2014-2568

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-416 Use After Free

Publication date:

24/03/2014

Last modified:

12/04/2025

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nfqnl_zcopy function in net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue_core.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. NOTE: the affected code was moved to the skb_zerocopy function in net/core/skbuff.c before the vulnerability was announced.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 2.90 LOW
Vector: AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Adjacent
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None