CVE-2014-2851

Name	CVE-2014-2851
Description	Integer overflow in the ping_init_sock function in net/ipv4/ping.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and system crash) or possibly gain privileges via a crafted application that leverages an improperly managed reference counter.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DSA-2926-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	buster	4.19.249-2	fixed
	buster (security)	4.19.269-1	fixed
	bullseye	5.10.158-2	fixed
	bullseye (security)	5.10.162-1	fixed
	bookworm	6.1.15-1	fixed
	sid	6.1.20-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin
linux	source	wheezy	3.2.57-3+deb7u1		DSA-2926-1
linux	source	(unstable)	3.14.4-1	low
linux-2.6	source	(unstable)	(not affected)

Notes

- linux-2.6 <not-affected> (Introduced in 3.0)
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/10/736
Upstream commit: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=b04c46190219a4f845e46a459e3102137b7f6cac