Access Restriction Bypass Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,3.14.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (21st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005752
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Jun 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Jun 2014

CVE-2014-4157  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 3.14.8 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass arch/mips/include/asm/thread_info.h in the Linux kernel before 3.14.8 on the MIPS platform does not configure _TIF_SECCOMP checks on the fast system-call path, which allows local users to bypass intended PR_SET_SECCOMP restrictions by executing a crafted application without invoking a trace or audit subsystem.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1