Advisories » MGASA-2014-0061

Updated kernel-linus package fixes security vulnerability

Publication date: 12 Feb 2014
Modification date: 12 Feb 2014
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 4
CVE: CVE-2014-0038

Description

This kernel update provides an update to 3.12.9 and fixes the following
critical security issue:

Pageexec reported a bug in the Linux kernel's recvmmsg syscall when called
from code using the x32 ABI. An unprivileged local user could exploit this
flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) or gain administrator
privileges (CVE-2014-0038).

Other changes are in the referenced changelog.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12523
• https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.12.9
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0038

SRPMS

4/core

• kernel-linus-3.12.9-1.mga4