A certain Debian patch to the IPv6 implementation in the Linux kernel 3.2.x through 3.2.63 does not properly validate arguments in ipv6_select_ident function calls, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) by leveraging (1) tun or (2) macvtap device access.
Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-7207
Reference (s):
- BID:70867
- URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70867
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=766195
- DEBIAN:DSA-3060
- URL: http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3060