CVE-2014-0101

La función sctp_sf_do_5_1D_ce en net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c en el kernel de Linux hasta la versión 3.13.6 no valida ciertos campos auth_enable y auth_capable antes de hacer una llamada sctp_sf_authenticate, lo que permite a atacantes remotos provocar una denegación de servicio (referencia a puntero NULL y caída del sistema) a través de un SCTP handshake con un fragmento INIT modificado y un fragmento AUTH manipulado anterior a un fragmento COOKIE_ECHO.

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel processed an authenticated COOKIE_ECHO chunk during the initialization of an SCTP connection. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the system by initiating a specially crafted SCTP handshake in order to trigger a NULL pointer dereference on the system.

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel processed an authenticated COOKIE_ECHO chunk during the initialization of an SCTP connection. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the system by initiating a specially crafted SCTP handshake in order to trigger a NULL pointer dereference on the system. A race condition flaw, leading to heap-based buffer overflows, was found in the way the Linux kernel's N_TTY line discipline implementation handled concurrent processing of echo output and TTY write operations originating from user space when the underlying TTY driver was PTY. An unprivileged, local user could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges on the system.