CVE-2014-9914

high
Published 2017-02-07 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
7.2
VIR risk
7.8

Description

Race condition in the ip4_datagram_release_cb function in net/ipv4/datagram.c in the Linux kernel before 3.15.2 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) by leveraging incorrect expectations about locking during multithreaded access to internal data structures for IPv4 UDP sockets.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9914

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@android.com — https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9709674e68646cee5a24e3000b3558d25412203a

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@android.com — http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.15.2

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@android.com — http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9709674e68646cee5a24e3000b3558d25412203a

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9914.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed3.16.2-1
debian debianbullseyefixed3.16.2-1
debian debianforkyfixed3.16.2-1
debian debiansidfixed3.16.2-1
debian debiantrixiefixed3.16.2-1
linux linux-kernelaffected3.10.45

References

CWEs

CWE-362 CWE-416

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.