Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2014-7145

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-7145 describes a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel's CIFS implementation (SMB2_tcon function in fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c) affecting versions before 3.16.3, including Canonical, Linux, and Red Hat distributions. A remote malicious CIFS server can trigger a denial of service (system crash) by deleting the IPC$ share during DFS referral resolution. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity, requiring no authentication, and resulting in a complete loss of availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_hpc_node:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 3.6, < 3.10.55CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.8HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.72%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0372 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: kernel-0:3.10.0-123.20.1.el7
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-7145Moderate

Kernel: cifs: NULL pointer dereference in SMB2_tcon

Aug 17, 2014

References

git.kernel.org
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-0102.html
Third Party Advisory
github.com / torvalds/linux/commit/18f39e7be0121317550d03e267e3ebd4dbfbb3ce
Issue TrackingPatch
kernel.org / pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.16.3
Release NotesVendor Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/09/22/4
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/69867
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2394-1
Third Party Advisory