U.S. flag   An official website of the United States government
Dot gov

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Https

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock (Dot gov) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

National Vulnerability Database
  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2014-4699 Detail

Description

The Linux kernel before 3.15.4 on Intel processors does not properly restrict use of a non-canonical value for the saved RIP address in the case of a system call that does not use IRET, which allows local users to leverage a race condition and gain privileges, or cause a denial of service (double fault), via a crafted application that makes ptrace and fork system calls.


Metrics

 
NVD enrichment efforts reference publicly available information to associate vector strings. CVSS information contributed by other sources is also displayed.
CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
N/A
NVD assessment not yet provided.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

By selecting these links, you will be leaving NIST webspace. We have provided these links to other web sites because they may have information that would be of interest to you. No inferences should be drawn on account of other sites being referenced, or not, from this page. There may be other web sites that are more appropriate for your purpose. NIST does not necessarily endorse the views expressed, or concur with the facts presented on these sites. Further, NIST does not endorse any commercial products that may be mentioned on these sites. Please address comments about this page to nvd@nist.gov.

Hyperlink Resource
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b9cd18de4db3c9ffa7e17b0dc0ca99ed5aa4d43a Broken Link  Third Party Advisory 
http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-0924.html Third Party Advisory 
http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-3047.html Third Party Advisory 
http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-3048.html Third Party Advisory 
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/05/4 Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/08/16 Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/08/5 Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/127573/Linux-Kernel-ptrace-sysret-Local-Privilege-Escalation.html Exploit  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2972 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/34134 Exploit  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.15.4 Release Notes  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/04/4 Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2266-1 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2267-1 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2268-1 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2269-1 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2270-1 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2271-1 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2272-1 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2273-1 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2274-1 Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1115927 Issue Tracking  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b9cd18de4db3c9ffa7e17b0dc0ca99ed5aa4d43a Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.10.47 Release Notes  Vendor Advisory 
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.14.11 Release Notes  Vendor Advisory 
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.4.97 Release Notes  Vendor Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition') cwe source acceptance level NIST  

Known Affected Software Configurations Switch to CPE 2.2

CPEs loading, please wait.

Denotes Vulnerable Software
Are we missing a CPE here? Please let us know.

Change History

5 change records found show changes

Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2014-4699
NVD Published Date:
07/09/2014
NVD Last Modified:
02/16/2024
Source:
MITRE