Tracker / CVE-2014-8159
CVE-2014-8159
Medium 6.9
The InfiniBand (IB) implementation in the Linux kernel package before 2.6.32-504.12.2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 does not properly restrict use of User Verbs for registration of memory regions, which allows local users to access arbitrary physical memory locations, and consequently cause a denial of service (system crash) or gain privileges, by leveraging permissions on a uverbs device under /dev/infiniband/.
Affected products and versions
| canonical | ubuntu_linux |
|---|---|
| debian | debian_linux |
| linux | linux_kernel · 2.6.12 → 3.2.69 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 3.11 → 3.12.41 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 3.13 → 3.14.39 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 3.15 → 3.16.35 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 3.17 → 3.18.13 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 3.19 → 3.19.5 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 3.3 → 3.4.108 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 3.5 → 3.10.75 |
Analysis
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