CVE-2015-3332

Description

A certain backport in the TCP Fast Open implementation for the Linux kernel before 3.18 does not properly maintain a count value, which allow local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via the Fast Open feature, as demonstrated by visiting the chrome://flags/#enable-tcp-fast-open URL when using certain 3.10.x through 3.16.x kernel builds, including longterm-maintenance releases and ckt (aka Canonical Kernel Team) builds.

Risk Information

Base Score

5.5

MODERATE

Vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.119

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
Linux hardware enablement kernel from Utopic (USN-2615-1) linux-image-3.16.0-38-generic_3.16.0-38.52~14.04.1_i386.deb	Linux
Linux hardware enablement kernel from Utopic (USN-2615-1) linux-image-3.16.0-38-generic_3.16.0-38.52~14.04.1_amd64.deb	Linux
Linux hardware enablement kernel from Utopic (USN-2615-1) linux-image-3.16.0-38-lowlatency_3.16.0-38.52~14.04.1_i386.deb	Linux
Linux hardware enablement kernel from Utopic (USN-2615-1) linux-image-3.16.0-38-lowlatency_3.16.0-38.52~14.04.1_amd64.deb	Linux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234