CVE-2014-3917

Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-06-05 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

kernel/auditsc.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.5, when CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL is enabled with certain syscall rules, allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive single-bit values from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (OOPS) via a large value of a syscall number.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 3.14.5; 3.14, 3.14-rc1, 3.14-rc2, 3.14-rc3, 3.14-rc4, 3.14-rc5 (+7)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 5, 6.0
RedHat Enterprise Mrg: 2.0
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1: 10.0-sp4

References

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1713179
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1143.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1281.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/59777
http://secunia.com/advisories/60011
http://secunia.com/advisories/60564
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/29/5
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2334-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2335-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1102571
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1713179

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