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