CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-7843
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-11-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-17
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 3.17.3)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=97fc15436b36ee3956efad83e22a557991f7d19d git.kernel.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62305 secunia.com
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.17.4 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/13/5 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71082 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1163744 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/97fc15436b36ee3956efad83e22a557991f7d19d Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=97fc15436b36ee3956efad83e22a557991f7d19d git.kernel.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62305 secunia.com
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.17.4 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/13/5 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71082 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1163744 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/97fc15436b36ee3956efad83e22a557991f7d19d Patch, Vendor Advisory