CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-2673
4.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-04-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 3.13.7)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=621b5060e823301d0cba4cb52a7ee3491922d291 git.kernel.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57436 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.13.7 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/30/5 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66477 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/92113 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/621b5060e823301d0cba4cb52a7ee3491922d291 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.12.15 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=621b5060e823301d0cba4cb52a7ee3491922d291 git.kernel.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57436 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.13.7 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/30/5 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66477 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/92113 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/621b5060e823301d0cba4cb52a7ee3491922d291 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.12.15 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory