CVE-2014-3917

kernel/auditsc.c en el kernel de Linux hasta 3.14.5, cuando CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL está habilitado con ciertas normas syscall, permite a usuarios locales obtener valores de un único bit potencialmente sensibles de la memoria del kernel o causar una denegación de servicio (OOPS) a través de un valor grande de un número syscall.

An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the Linux kernel's system call auditing implementation. On a system with existing audit rules defined, a local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to leak kernel memory to user space or, potentially, crash the system.

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's futex subsystem handled reference counting when requeuing futexes during futex_wait(). A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to zero out the reference counter of an inode or an mm struct that backs up the memory area of the futex, which could lead to a use-after-free flaw, resulting in a system crash or, potentially, privilege escalation. A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's networking implementation handled logging while processing certain invalid packets coming in via a VxLAN interface. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the system by sending a specially crafted packet to such an interface.