CVE-2014-2706: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 4.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Race condition in the mac80211 subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.13.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via network traffic that improperly interacts with the WLAN_STA_PS_STA state (aka power-save mode), related to sta_info.c and tx.c.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 3.2.56 (fixed in 3.2.56); from 3.3, before 3.4.84 (fixed in 3.4.84); from 3.5, before 3.10.34 (fixed in 3.10.34); from 3.11, before 3.12.15 (fixed in 3.12.15); from 3.13, before 3.13.7 (fixed in 3.13.7)
• Oracle Linux: version 6 only; version 7 only
• Suse Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension: version 11 only
• Suse Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop: version 11 only
• Suse Suse Linux Enterprise Server: version 11 only

Published 2014-04-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.