CVE-2014-7207

medium

Published 2014-11-10 · 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

4.9

Description

A certain Debian patch to the IPv6 implementation in the Linux kernel 3.2.x through 3.2.63 does not properly validate arguments in ipv6_select_ident function calls, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) by leveraging (1) tun or (2) macvtap device access.

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 65 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
3.25	Affected	—
3.2.63	Affected	—
3.2.62	Affected	—
3.2.61	Affected	—
3.2.60	Affected	—
3.2.59	Affected	—
3.2.58	Affected	—
3.2.57	Affected	—
3.2.56	Affected	—
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3.2.10	Affected	—
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3.2.2	Affected	—
3.2.1	Affected	—
3.2	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`0`
sid	Fixed	`0`
forky	Fixed	`0`
bullseye	Fixed	`0`
bookworm	Fixed	`0`

References

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

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