CVE-2014-2309

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-119 Buffer Errors

Publication date:

11/03/2014

Last modified:

12/04/2025

Description

The ip6_route_add function in net/ipv6/route.c in the Linux kernel through 3.13.6 does not properly count the addition of routes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a flood of ICMPv6 Router Advertisement packets.

Impact

Vector 2.0

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

Base Score: 6.10 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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

Base Score 2.0

6.10

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::		3.13.6 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:11.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:11:-::::::
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:11:sp2:::ltss:::*

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CVE-2014-2309

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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