CVE-2014-2568

low

Published 2014-03-24 · 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

2.9

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nfqnl_zcopy function in net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue_core.c in the Linux kernel through 3.13.6 allows attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by leveraging the absence of a certain orphaning operation. NOTE: the affected code was moved to the skb_zerocopy function in net/core/skbuff.c before the vulnerability was announced.

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	—

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Ubuntu Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
14.04	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`3.13.7-1`
sid	Fixed	`3.13.7-1`
forky	Fixed	`3.13.7-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`3.13.7-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`3.13.7-1`

References

CWEs

CWE-416

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

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