CVE-2014-2706

Kernel: net: mac80211: crash dues to AP powersave TX vs. wakeup race

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.4

CVSS 2.0

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Published · February 20, 2014

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

A race condition flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's mac80211 subsystem implementation handled synchronization between TX and STA wake-up code paths. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the system.

Statement

This issue does not affect the version of the kernel package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 5.4
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CWE not specified