CVE-2015-1421 Information

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the sctp_assoc_update function in net/sctp/associola.c in the Linux kernel before 3.18.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (slab corruption and panic) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering an INIT collision that leads to improper handling of shared-key data.

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=600ddd6825543962fb807884169e57b580dba208 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00001.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00004.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0726.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0751.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0782.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0864.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1082.html http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3170 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.18.8 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/29/15 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72356 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032172 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2541-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2542-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2545-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2546-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2562-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2563-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1196581 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/600ddd6825543962fb807884169e57b580dba208