CVE-2014-3180

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-11-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

In kernel/compat.c in the Linux kernel before 3.17, as used in Google Chrome OS and other products, there is a possible out-of-bounds read. restart_syscall uses uninitialized data when restarting compat_sys_nanosleep. NOTE: this is disputed because the code path is unreachable

Affected products

Google ChromeOS: all versions
Linux kernel: before 3.17 — fixed in 3.17

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 3.17. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=408827
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/7/29
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=408827
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/7/29

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