It was found that the permission checks performed by the Linux kernel when a netlink message was received were not sufficient. A local, unprivileged user could potentially bypass these restrictions by passing a netlink socket as stdout or stderr to a more privileged process and altering the output of this process.
Find out more about CVE-2014-0181 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
| Base Score | 1.2 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
| Access Vector | Local |
| Access Complexity | High |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | Partial |
| Availability Impact | None |
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| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (kernel) | RHSA-2014:1959 | 2014-12-04 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (kernel) | RHSA-2014:1392 | 2014-10-13 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (kernel) | RHSA-2014:1023 | 2014-08-06 |
| Red Hat MRG Grid for RHEL 6 Server v.2 (kernel-rt) | RHSA-2014:0913 | 2014-07-22 |
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