CVE-2014-3917 Information

Description

kernel/auditsc.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.5 when CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL is enabled with certain syscall rules allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive single-bit values from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (OOPS) via a large value of a syscall number.

Reference

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1713179 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1143.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1281.html http://secunia.com/advisories/59777 http://secunia.com/advisories/60011 http://secunia.com/advisories/60564 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/29/5 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2334-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2335-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1102571