CVE-2014-2672 (GCVE-0-2014-2672)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-04-01 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 10:21
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Summary
Race condition in the ath_tx_aggr_sleep function in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a large amount of network traffic that triggers certain list deletions.
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CWE
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2014-03-23 00:00
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