Bug 1142072 (CVE-2014-6417) - CVE-2014-6417 kernel: libceph: incorrect handling of kmalloc failures.
Summary: CVE-2014-6417 kernel: libceph: incorrect handling of kmalloc failures.
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2014-6417
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1142285 1142286
Blocks: 1142025
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Reported: 2014-09-16 06:32 UTC by Wade Mealing
Modified: 2021-02-17 06:13 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-08-08 13:18:20 UTC
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Description Wade Mealing 2014-09-16 06:32:43 UTC 
A flaw was reported in the Linux kernel where the libceph auth token could
cause the kernel to incorrectly handle kmalloc failure.
Comment 2 Wade Mealing 2014-09-17 05:44:57 UTC 
Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7.0 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 (as they did not include support for this feature).
Comment 3 Wade Mealing 2014-09-18 01:36:20 UTC 
Upstream fixes:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c27a3e4d667fdcad3db7b104f75659478e0c68d8
Comment 5 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-08-08 13:18:20 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2014-6417
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