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Cent OS: CVE-2014-2672: CESA-2014:1023 (kernel)

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Cent OS: CVE-2014-2672: CESA-2014:1023 (kernel)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
04/01/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/01/2016
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

Race condition in the ath_tx_aggr_sleep function in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a large amount of network traffic that triggers certain list deletions.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-kernel
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-abi-whitelists
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-debug
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-debug-devel
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-devel
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-doc
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-firmware
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-headers
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-tools
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-tools-libs
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-tools-libs-devel
  • centos-upgrade-perf
  • centos-upgrade-python-perf

References

  • 66492
  • CVE-2014-2672
  • USN-2221-1
  • USN-2223-1
  • USN-2224-1
  • USN-2225-1
  • USN-2227-1
  • USN-2228-1
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