--- /dev/null
+CVE-2014-5077 Kernel/SCTP: fix a NULL pointer dereference
+
+A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way the
+Linux kernel's Stream Control Transmission Protocol
+(SCTP) implementation handled simultaneous connections
+between the same hosts. A remote attacker could use this
+flaw to crash the system.
+
+Upstream-Status: Backport (from v3.16, commit 1be9a950c646c)
+
+References:
+ - https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-5077
+ - http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/372475/
+
+Fixes: 730fc3d05cd4 ("[SCTP]: Implete SCTP-AUTH parameter processing")
+Reported-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
+Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
+Tested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
+Cc: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
+Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
+Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
+Signed-off-by: Liviu Gheorghisan <liviu.gheorghisan@enea.com>
+---
+ net/sctp/associola.c | 1 +
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
+
+diff --git a/net/sctp/associola.c b/net/sctp/associola.c
+index 9de23a2..06a9ee6 100644
+--- a/net/sctp/associola.c
++++ b/net/sctp/associola.c
+@@ -1097,6 +1097,7 @@ void sctp_assoc_update(struct sctp_association *asoc,
+ asoc->c = new->c;
+ asoc->peer.rwnd = new->peer.rwnd;
+ asoc->peer.sack_needed = new->peer.sack_needed;
++ asoc->peer.auth_capable = new->peer.auth_capable;
+ asoc->peer.i = new->peer.i;
+ sctp_tsnmap_init(&asoc->peer.tsn_map, SCTP_TSN_MAP_INITIAL,
+ asoc->peer.i.initial_tsn, GFP_ATOMIC);
+--
+1.9.1
+
