CVE-2014-0100

critical

Published 2014-03-11 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.3

Description

Race condition in the inet_frag_intern function in net/ipv4/inet_fragment.c in the Linux kernel through 3.13.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free error) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a large series of fragmented ICMP Echo Request packets to a system with a heavy CPU load.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Linux kernel Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	`3.10.37`

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`3.13.6-1`
sid	Fixed	`3.13.6-1`
forky	Fixed	`3.13.6-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`3.13.6-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`3.13.6-1`

References

CWEs

CWE-362 CWE-416

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.