CVE-2014-2678: Fedoraproject Fedora

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The rds_iw_laddr_check function in net/rds/iw.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a bind system call for an RDS socket on a system that lacks RDS transports.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 20 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 3.14
• Oracle Linux: version 5 only

Published 2014-04-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.