Bug 1159313 (CVE-2014-8559)
Summary: | CVE-2014-8559 kernel: fs: deadlock due to incorrect usage of rename_lock | ||
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Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Prasad Pandit <ppandit> |
Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | unspecified | CC: | aquini, bhu, carnil, dhoward, fhrbata, gansalmon, iboverma, itamar, jforbes, jkacur, jonathan, jross, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, lgoncalv, madhu.chinakonda, matt, mchehab, mcressma, nmurray, plougher, pmatouse, rt-maint, rvrbovsk, williams |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
Doc Text: |
A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's VFS subsystem handled file system locks. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to trigger a deadlock in the kernel, causing a denial of service on the system.
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Story Points: | --- |
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2019-06-08 02:35:35 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Bug Depends On: | 1173812, 1173813, 1173814, 1173831, 1266516, 1266517 | ||
Bug Blocks: | 1159275 |
Description
Prasad Pandit
2014-10-31 13:26:14 UTC
Statement: This issue does not affect the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. This issue affects the version of the kernel package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2. Future kernel updates for the respective releases may address this issue. Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1173814] kernel-3.17.7-200.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. kernel-3.17.7-300.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. This issue has been addressed in the following products: MRG for RHEL-6 v.2 Via RHSA-2015:1976 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1976.html This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2015:1977 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1977.html This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2015:1978 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1978.html |