CVE-2014-2673 (GCVE-0-2014-2673)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-04-01 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 10:21
VLAI?
Summary
The arch_dup_task_struct function in the Transactional Memory (TM) implementation in arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.7 on the powerpc platform does not properly interact with the clone and fork system calls, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (Program Check and system crash) via certain instructions that are executed with the processor in the Transactional state.
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CWE
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2014-03-23 00:00
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