CVE-2014-7843
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Nov 30, 2014
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 3, 2014
Description
The __clear_user function in arch/arm64/lib/clear_user.S in the Linux kernel before 3.17.4 on the ARM64 platform allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by reading one byte beyond a /dev/zero page boundary.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- [oss-security] 20141113 CVE-2014-7843 Linux kernel: aarch64: copying from /dev/zero causes local DoSmailing-list
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/97fc15436b36ee3956efad83e22a557991f7d19d
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=97fc15436b36ee3956efad83e22a557991f7d19d
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1163744
- 71082vdb-entry
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.17.4
- 62305third-party-advisory
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