Use-after-free vulnerability in the nfqnl_zcopy function in net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue_core.c in the...
Vulnerability Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the nfqnl_zcopy function in net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue_core.c in the Linux kernel through 3.13.6 allows attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by leveraging the absence of a certain orphaning operation. NOTE: the affected code was moved to the skb_zerocopy function in net/core/skbuff.c before the vulnerability was announced.
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References
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/20/421
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1079012
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2240-1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66348
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59599
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/91922
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/627
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/20/16
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