CVE-2014-3673 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2014-3673?

CVE-2014-3673 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 10 Nov 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a malformed ASCONF chunk, related to net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c and net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-3673?

It affects 10 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel, Opensuse Evergreen, Oracle Linux, Redhat Enterprise Linux and 4 more.

How do I fix CVE-2014-3673?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2014-3673 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3673 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3673, GHSA-g35v-9m6f-v2fq, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3673.