Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1142072
CVE-2014-6417 kernel: libceph: incorrect handling of kmalloc failures.
Last modified: 2018-08-28 17:55:36 EDT
A flaw was reported in the Linux kernel where the libceph auth token could cause the kernel to incorrectly handle kmalloc failure.
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).
Upstream fixes: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c27a3e4d667fdcad3db7b104f75659478e0c68d8