CVE-2014-2706

Linux Kernel < 3.13.7 - Denial of Service via mac80211 WLAN Power-Save Mode Race Condition

Title source: llm

Description

Race condition in the mac80211 subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.13.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via network traffic that improperly interacts with the WLAN_STA_PS_STA state (aka power-save mode), related to sta_info.c and tx.c.

References (13)

Core 13

Core References

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-10/msg00006.html

Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-04-01

Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-3052.html

Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1083512

Broken Link third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia

http://secunia.com/advisories/60613

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70551#c18

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-10/msg00007.html

Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/01/8

Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.13.7

Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1d147bfa64293b2723c4fec50922168658e613ba

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66591

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038201

Patch x_refsource_confirm

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1d147bfa64293b2723c4fec50922168658e613ba

Scores

EPSS 0.0310

EPSS Percentile 87.0%

Details

CWE

CWE-362

Status published

Products (6)

linux/linux_kernel < 3.2.56

oracle/linux 6

oracle/linux 7

suse/linux_enterprise_high_availability_extension 11 sp3

suse/suse_linux_enterprise_desktop 11 sp3

suse/suse_linux_enterprise_server 11 sp3 (2 CPE variants)

Published Apr 14, 2014

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026