CVE-2015-3332

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Summary

CVECVE-2015-3332
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2015-05-27 10:59:08 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
DescriptionA 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.9 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Problem Types: CWE-399 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Complete

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux All All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
article.gmane.org | 522: Connection timed out af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 article.gmane.org
oss-security - TCP Fast Open local DoS in some Linux stable branches af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
Bug 1213951 – CVE-2015-3332 kernel: TCP Fast Open local DoS af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
#782515 - [regression] BUG in process context when using TCP Fast Open (CVE-2015-2015-3332) - Debian Bug report logs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.debian.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3237-1 linux af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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