CVE-2014-3534

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Publication date:

01/08/2014

Last modified:

12/04/2025

Description

arch/s390/kernel/ptrace.c in the Linux kernel before 3.15.8 on the s390 platform does not properly restrict address-space control operations in PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA requests, which allows local users to obtain read and write access to kernel memory locations, and consequently gain privileges, via a crafted application that makes a ptrace system call.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.20 HIGH
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

7.20

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::		3.2.62 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	3.3 (including)	3.4.101 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	3.5 (including)	3.10.51 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	3.11 (including)	3.12.27 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	3.13 (including)	3.14.15 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	3.15 (including)	3.15.8 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:::::::*

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CVE-2014-3534

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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