Use-after-free vulnerability in nfqnl_zcopy function in Linux kernel

CVE-2014-2568 · LOW Severity

AV:A/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nfqnl_zcopy function in net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue_core.c in the Linux kernel through 3.13.6 allows attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by leveraging the absence of a certain orphaning operation. NOTE: the affected code was moved to the skb_zerocopy function in net/core/skbuff.c before the vulnerability was announced.

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