CVE-2014-8160 Security feature bypass in n/a

What is CVE-2014-8160?

CVE-2014-8160 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 2 Mar 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_generic.c in the Linux kernel before 3.18 generates incorrect conntrack entries during handling of certain iptables rule sets for the SCTP, DCCP, GRE, and UDP-Lite protocols, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via packets with disallowed port numbers.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-8160?

It affects 15 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel, Opensuse Opensuse, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server and 9 more.

How do I fix CVE-2014-8160?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2014-8160 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-8160 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

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• 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
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8160, GHSA-jr7v-xpxw-4c4v, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8160.