CVE-2014-9090 Information

Description

The do_double_fault function in arch/x86/kernel/traps.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17.4 does not properly handle faults associated with the Stack Segment (SS) segment register which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via a modify_ldt system call as demonstrated by sigreturn_32 in the linux-clock-tests test suite.

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6f442be2fb22be02cafa606f1769fa1e6f894441 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00025.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00015.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.html http://secunia.com/advisories/62336 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3093 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/26/5 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6f442be2fb22be02cafa606f1769fa1e6f894441