CVE-2014-2672

HighCVSS 7.1/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Race condition in the ath_tx_aggr_sleep function in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a large amount of network traffic that triggers certain list deletions.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 7.1/10AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Weakness enumeration

CWE-362

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=21f8aaee0c62708654988ce092838aa7df4d25d8
http://secunia.com/advisories/57468Third Party Advisory
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.13.7Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/30/5Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66492Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70551Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/21f8aaee0c62708654988ce092838aa7df4d25d8Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.12.15Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=21f8aaee0c62708654988ce092838aa7df4d25d8
http://secunia.com/advisories/57468Third Party Advisory
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.13.7Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/30/5Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66492Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70551Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/21f8aaee0c62708654988ce092838aa7df4d25d8Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.12.15Release Notes, Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Apr 1, 2014
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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