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CVE-2015-1421Use-after-free vulnerability in the sctp_assoc_update function in net/sctp/associola.c in the Linux kernel before 3.18.8 allows remote…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 9.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 4.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the sctp_assoc_update function in net/sctp/associola.c in the Linux kernel before 3.18.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (slab corruption and panic) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering an INIT collision that leads to improper handling of shared-key data.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 46 days later
· 46 days later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 9.8% · top 4.4% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References
References21
- DSA-3170 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- USN-2542-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-2562-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-2546-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:1082 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- USN-2541-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:0751 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- USN-2563-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2015:0832 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/600ddd6825543962fb807884169e57b580dba208 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1032172 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:0864 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150129 Re: CVE request -- Linux kernel - net: sctp: slab corruption from use after free on INIT collisions (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:0782 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- USN-2545-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2015:1478 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=600ddd6825543962fb807884169e57b580dba208 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1196581 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:0726 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.18.8 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 72356 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-1558 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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