A flaw was found in the way forking inside a transaction was handled in the Linux kernel. Unprivileged local user on a POWERPC system supporting transactional memory could use this flaw to crash the system. Upstream fix: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=621b5060e823301d0cba4cb52a7ee3491922d291 References: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/701
Statement: This issue does not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 because we do not provide support for Transactional Memory on Power PC architecture. This issue does not affect Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 because we do not support Power PC architecture.
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1083217]
IssueDescription: A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel performed forking inside of a transaction. A local, unprivileged user on a PowerPC system that supports transactional memory could use this flaw to crash the system.
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2014:1023 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1023.html