CVE-2014-2568
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 2.9 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-416
- EPSS score
- 1.0% (63th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-2603)
- Published
- March 24, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-2603 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- linux / linux kernel
References
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/627(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59599(Broken Link)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/20/16(Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66348(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2240-1(Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1079012(Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/91922(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/20/421(Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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