Security Advisory

CVE-2014-9914

7.8
HIGH

Vulnerability Description

Race condition in the ip4_datagram_release_cb function in net/ipv4/datagram.c in the Linux kernel before 3.15.2 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) by leveraging incorrect expectations about locking during multithreaded access to internal data structures for IPv4 UDP sockets.
Published Date February 7, 2017
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory