CVE-2014-7207 Information

Description

A certain Debian patch to the IPv6 implementation in the Linux kernel 3.2.x through 3.2.63 does not properly validate arguments in ipv6_select_ident function calls which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) by leveraging (1) tun or (2) macvtap device access.

Reference

http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3060 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/02/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70867 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2417-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2418-1 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=766195