NVD
- Id
- 35366
- Name
- CVE-2014-8159
- Description
- The InfiniBand (IB) implementation in the Linux kernel package before 2.6.32-504.12.2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 does not properly restrict use of User Verbs for registration of memory regions, which allows local users to access arbitrary physical memory locations, and consequently cause a denial of service (system crash) or gain privileges, by leveraging permissions on a uverbs device under /dev/infiniband/.
- Reject
- CVSS Version
- 2
- CVSS Score
- 6.9
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS Base Score
- 6.9
- CVSS Impact Subscore
- 10
- CVSS Exploit Subscore
- 3.4
- CVSS Vector
- (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
- Pub Date
- 2017-01-19
- Published
- 2015-03-16
- Modified Date
- 2017-01-02
- Seq
- 2014-8159