VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-3917

low
Published 2014-06-05 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
3.3

Description

kernel/auditsc.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.5, when CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL is enabled with certain syscall rules, allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive single-bit values from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (OOPS) via a large value of a syscall number.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
linux Linux kernel Affected 6 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
3.14.4 Affected —
3.14.3 Affected —
3.14.2 Affected —
3.14.1 Affected —
3.14 Affected —
— Affected —
redhat Red Hat Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
6.0 Affected —
5 Affected —
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
10.0 Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 3.14.7-1
sid Fixed 3.14.7-1
forky Fixed 3.14.7-1
bullseye Fixed 3.14.7-1
bookworm Fixed 3.14.7-1

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.