UBUNTU-CVE-2014-2706

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2014-2706

    Published: 14 Apr 2014Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-2706
    Aliases:
    USN-2221-1
    USN-2223-1
    USN-2224-1

    Summary:

    Details: Race condition in the mac80211 subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.13.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via network traffic that improperly interacts with the WLAN_STA_PS_STA state (aka power-save mode), related to sta_info.c and tx.c.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-2706, http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1d147bfa64293b2723c4fec50922168658e613ba, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2221-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2223-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2224-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2225-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2227-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2228-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-2706

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.13.0-20.42

    Affected versions

    3.11.0-12.19

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High