CVE-2014-2673
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Apr 1, 2014
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Mar 30, 2014
Description
The arch_dup_task_struct function in the Transactional Memory (TM) implementation in arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.7 on the powerpc platform does not properly interact with the clone and fork system calls, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (Program Check and system crash) via certain instructions that are executed with the processor in the Transactional state.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- 57436third-party-advisory
- linux-kernel-cve20142673-dos(92113)vdb-entry
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=621b5060e823301d0cba4cb52a7ee3491922d291
- 66477vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20140330 Re: CVE request: Linux Kernel, two security issuesmailing-list
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/621b5060e823301d0cba4cb52a7ee3491922d291
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.12.15
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.13.7
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