CVE-2014-0181

CVE Details

Release Date:

2014-04-23

Description

It was found that the permission checks performed by the Linux kernel when a netlink message was received were not sufficient. A local, unprivileged user could potentially bypass these restrictions by passing a netlink socket as stdout or stderr to a more privileged process and altering the output of this process.

See more information about CVE-2014-0181 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	1.2	Base Metrics:	AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector:	Local network	Attack Complexity:	High
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	Partial	Availability Impact:	None

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel)	ELSA-2014-1959	2014-12-05
Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel)	ELSA-2014-1959-1	2014-12-05
Oracle Linux version 5 (ocfs2-2.6.18-400.0.0.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2014-1959-1	2014-12-05
Oracle Linux version 5 (ocfs2-2.6.18-400.el5)	ELSA-2014-1959	2014-12-05
Oracle Linux version 5 (oracleasm-2.6.18-400.0.0.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2014-1959-1	2014-12-05
Oracle Linux version 5 (oracleasm-2.6.18-400.el5)	ELSA-2014-1959	2014-12-05
Oracle Linux version 6 (dtrace-modules-3.8.13-35.3.5.el6uek)	ELSA-2014-3067	2014-08-11
Oracle Linux version 6 (kernel)	ELSA-2014-1392	2014-10-20
Oracle Linux version 6 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2014-3067	2014-08-11
Oracle Linux version 7 (dtrace-modules-3.8.13-35.3.5.el7uek)	ELSA-2014-3067	2014-08-11
Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel)	ELSA-2014-1023	2014-08-06
Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2014-3067	2014-08-11

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