Summary
F5 BIG-IP is prone to a remote denial-of-service vulnerability.
Impact
Remote attackers may be able to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) using malformed or duplicate ASCONF chunk.
Solution
See the referenced vendor advisory for a solution.
Insight
CVE-2014-3673
The SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a malformed ASCONF chunk, related to net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c and net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c.
CVE-2014-3687
The sctp_assoc_lookup_asconf_ack function in net/sctp/associola.c in the SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via duplicate ASCONF chunks that trigger an incorrect uncork within the side-effect interpreter.
Detection
Check the version.
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2014-3673, CVE-2014-3687 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.8
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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