Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-2678

Title: Oracle Linux Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-2678.

CWE Category CWE-476
Published Date Apr 01, 2014
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 4.7 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.40%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-2678: The rds_iw_laddr_check function in net/rds/iw.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a bind system call for an RDS socket on a system that lacks RDS transports.

Impacted Vendors

C
cyrix 1
C
conectiva 1
S
sun 1
R
redhat 1
U
ubuntu 1
O
oracle 1
F
fedoraproject 1
L
linux 1

Reference Links

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-0926-1.html http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-0926.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-April/131276.html http://secunia.com/advisories/59386 http://secunia.com/advisories/60130 http://secunia.com/advisories/60471 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/31/10 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66543 https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/29/188 http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-0926-1.html http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-0926.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-April/131276.html http://secunia.com/advisories/59386 http://secunia.com/advisories/60130 http://secunia.com/advisories/60471 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/31/10 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66543 https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/29/188
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.7
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-2678 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.