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CVE-2015-1421

Published:March 16, 2015

Updated:May 17, 2026

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.

Related Resources (24)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00004.html

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.18.8

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/600ddd6825543962fb807884169e57b580dba208

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0751.html

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2563-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2562-1

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1082.html

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2545-1

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-1421

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/29/15

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0782.html