The InfiniBand (IB) implementation in the Linux kernel package before 2.6.32-504.12.2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 does not properly restrict use of User Verbs for registration of memory regions, which allows local users to access arbitrary physical memory locations, and consequently cause a denial of service (system crash) or gain privileges, by leveraging permissions on a uverbs device under /dev/infiniband/.
References
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73060 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032224 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2525-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2526-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2527-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2528-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2529-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2530-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2561-1 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181166 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8159 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8159 cve-icon
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2015-03-16T10:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T13:10:50.879Z

Reserved: 2014-10-10T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2014-8159

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2015-03-16T10:59:01.880

Modified: 2024-06-06T19:46:16.053

Link: CVE-2014-8159

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2015-03-11T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2014-8159 - Bugzilla