CVE-2014-9090
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Nov 30, 2014
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Nov 26, 2014
Description
The do_double_fault function in arch/x86/kernel/traps.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17.4 does not properly handle faults associated with the Stack Segment (SS) segment register, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via a modify_ldt system call, as demonstrated by sigreturn_32 in the linux-clock-tests test suite.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- SUSE-SU-2015:0736vendor-advisory
- DSA-3093vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20141126 Re: CVE Request: Linux kernel LDT handling bugsmailing-list
- openSUSE-SU-2015:0566vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6f442be2fb22be02cafa606f1769fa1e6f894441
- 62336third-party-advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6f442be2fb22be02cafa606f1769fa1e6f894441
- SUSE-SU-2015:0812vendor-advisory
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