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kernel: privilege escalation

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2014-0196
Created:May 6, 2014 Updated:July 24, 2014
Description: From the Ubuntu advisory:

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's pseudo tty (pty) device. An unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) or potentially gain administrator privileges.

Alerts:
Oracle ELSA-2015-0290 kernel 2015-03-12
Oracle ELSA-2014-1392 kernel 2014-10-21
Oracle ELSA-2014-0678 kernel 2014-07-23
Ubuntu USN-2260-1 linux-lts-trusty 2014-06-27
Oracle ELSA-2014-0771 kernel 2014-06-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2014:0807-1 Linux Kernel 2014-06-18
Red Hat RHSA-2014:0678-02 kernel 2014-06-10
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2014:0766-1 Evergreen 2014-06-06
Red Hat RHSA-2014:0557-01 kernel-rt 2014-05-27
Ubuntu USN-2227-1 linux-ti-omap4 2014-05-27
Mageia MGASA-2014-0238 kernel-vserver 2014-05-24
Mageia MGASA-2014-0234 kernel-tmb 2014-05-23
Mageia MGASA-2014-0236 kernel-tmb 2014-05-24
Mageia MGASA-2014-0237 kernel-rt 2014-05-24
Mageia MGASA-2014-0235 kernel-linus 2014-05-24
SUSE SUSE-SU-2014:0696-1 Linux kernel 2014-05-22
Fedora FEDORA-2014-6354 kernel 2014-05-21
SUSE SUSE-SU-2014:0683-1 Linux kernel 2014-05-20
Mageia MGASA-2014-0229 kernel-vserver 2014-05-19
Mageia MGASA-2014-0227 kernel-rt 2014-05-19
Mageia MGASA-2014-0226 kernel-linus 2014-05-19
Mageia MGASA-2014-0228 kernel 2014-05-19
Red Hat RHSA-2014:0520-01 kernel 2014-05-20
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2014:0678-1 kernel 2014-05-19
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2014:0677-1 kernel 2014-05-19
Mageia MGASA-2014-0225 kernel 2014-05-18
Red Hat RHSA-2014:0512-01 kernel 2014-05-19
SUSE SUSE-SU-2014:0667-1 Linux Kernel 2014-05-16
Debian DSA-2928-1 linux-2.6 2014-05-14
Debian DSA-2926-1 kernel 2014-05-12
Fedora FEDORA-2014-6122 kernel 2014-05-10
Ubuntu USN-2201-1 linux-lts-saucy 2014-05-05
Ubuntu USN-2200-1 linux-lts-raring 2014-05-05
Ubuntu USN-2199-1 linux-lts-quantal 2014-05-05
Ubuntu USN-2204-1 kernel 2014-05-05
Ubuntu USN-2203-1 kernel 2014-05-05
Ubuntu USN-2202-1 kernel 2014-05-05
Ubuntu USN-2198-1 kernel 2014-05-05
Ubuntu USN-2196-1 kernel 2014-05-05
Ubuntu USN-2197-1 EC2 kernel 2014-05-05
CentOS CESA-2014:X009 kernel 2014-06-16
Mandriva MDVSA-2014:124 kernel 2014-06-13

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kernel: privilege escalation

Posted May 14, 2014 16:46 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

I can't help but wonder when all the older Android boxes out there will get this fix. I suspect that, as usual, the answer is 'never'.


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