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CVE-2014-7843
Published: Nov 30, 2014
Modified: Aug 6, 2024
PUBLISHED
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.
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References
[oss-security] 20141113 CVE-2014-7843 Linux kernel: aarch64: copying from /dev/zero causes local DoS
mailing-list
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1163744
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71082
vdb-entry
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http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.17.4
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62305
third-party-advisory
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