CVE-2015-3332

Modified
Published: 27 May 2015, 10:00
Last modified:06 Aug 2024, 05:47

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
low
20/100
CVSS Score
4.9 MEDIUM
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.13% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

27 May 2015, 10:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
06 Aug 2024, 05:47
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

A certain backport in the TCP Fast Open implementation for the Linux kernel before 3.18 does not properly maintain a count value, which allow local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via the Fast Open feature, as demonstrated by visiting the chrome://flags/#enable-tcp-fast-open URL when using certain 3.10.x through 3.16.x kernel builds, including longterm-maintenance releases and ckt (aka Canonical Kernel Team) builds.

CVSS Metrics

  • v2.0MEDIUMScore: 4.9AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.13% Percentile: 31%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-399Resource Management Errors

    Weaknesses in this category are related to improper management of system resources.

Affected Systems

  • linuxlinux_kernel

    ≤ 3.17.8

References (5)