4.7

CVE-2014-2678: fedoraproject fedora NULL Pointer Dereference

Modified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2014-2678DEBIAN-CVE-2014-2678
Published 01-04-2014Last modified 06-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2014-2678 is a medium (CVSS 4.7) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in fedoraproject fedora. EPSS estimates a 0.40% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 34.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 4.7, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
4.7/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.40%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 5
DLA-0015-1RHSA-2014:0557RHSA-2014:0926RHSA-2014:0981RHSA-2014:1101

Timeline

  1. 01-04-2014
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.40%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

35%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.40% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, no authentication (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu10 products
  • linux< 3.13.0-24.46 | < 4.2.0-16.19
  • linux-aws< 4.4.0-1002.2 | < 4.4.0-1001.10
  • linux-gke< 4.4.0-1003.3
  • linux-hwe< 4.8.0-36.36~16.04.1
  • linux-lts-utopic< 3.16.0-25.33~14.04.2
Debian1 product
  • linux< 3.13.10-1
Fedoraproject1 product
Linux1 product
Oracle1 product

5 vendors · 14 products

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