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Cent OS: CVE-2014-4171: CESA-2015:0102 (kernel)

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Cent OS: CVE-2014-4171: CESA-2015:0102 (kernel)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
06/23/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/01/2016
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

mm/shmem.c in the Linux kernel through 3.15.1 does not properly implement the interaction between range notification and hole punching, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (i_mutex hold) by using the mmap system call to access a hole, as demonstrated by interfering with intended shmem activity by blocking completion of (1) an MADV_REMOVE madvise call or (2) an FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE fallocate call.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-kernel
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-abi-whitelists
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-debug
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-debug-devel
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-devel
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-doc
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-headers
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-tools
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-tools-libs
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-tools-libs-devel
  • centos-upgrade-perf
  • centos-upgrade-python-perf

References

  • 68157
  • CVE-2014-4171
  • RHSA-2014:1318
  • RHSA-2015:0102
  • SUSE-SU-2014:1316
  • SUSE-SU-2014:1319
  • USN-2334-1
  • USN-2335-1
  • USN-2336-1
  • USN-2337-1
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