Improper Privilege Management Affecting kernel-abi-whitelists package, versions <0:3.10.0-123.6.3.el7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (40th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE7-KERNELABIWHITELISTS-2485030
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed1 Aug 2014

Introduced: 1 Aug 2014

CVE-2014-3534  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:7 kernel-abi-whitelists to version 0:3.10.0-123.6.3.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2014-1023.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-abi-whitelists package and not the kernel-abi-whitelists package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

arch/s390/kernel/ptrace.c in the Linux kernel before 3.15.8 on the s390 platform does not properly restrict address-space control operations in PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA requests, which allows local users to obtain read and write access to kernel memory locations, and consequently gain privileges, via a crafted application that makes a ptrace system call.

CVSS Scores

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