Description
Buffer overflow in the exitcode_proc_write function in arch/um/kernel/exitcode.c in the Linux kernel before 3.12 allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging root privileges for a write operation.
Affected products
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n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.12.bz2 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63510 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/04/22 ↗
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=201f99f170df14ba52ea4c52847779042b7a623b ↗
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/201f99f170df14ba52ea4c52847779042b7a623b ↗