Linux Kernel Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2014-3534)

Linux Kernel Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2014-3534)

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Description:
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Bugtraq id: 68940
CVE (CAN) ID: CVE-2014-3534
 
Linux Kernel is the Kernel of the Linux operating system.
 
The ptrace subsystem of Linux kernel does not properly filter the psw mask value. Unauthorized Local Users can exploit this vulnerability to set the address space control bit and then obtain the read and write permissions of the kernel memory.
 
<* Source: Martin Schwidefsky (schwidefsky@de.ibm.com)
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Suggestion:
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Vendor patch:
 
Linux
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The vendor has released a patch to fix this security problem. Please download it from the vendor's homepage:
 
Http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit? Id = dab6cf55f81a6e16b8147aed9a843e1691dcd318

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