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CVE-2014-7843

The __clear_user function in arch/arm64/lib/clear_user.S in the Linux kernel before 3.17.4 on the ARM64 platform allows local users to cause

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Summary

The __clear_user function in arch/arm64/lib/clear_user.S in the Linux kernel before 3.17.4 on the ARM64 platform allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by reading one byte beyond a /dev/zero page boundary.

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Affected versions

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References 7

openwall.com

GitHub · torvalds/linux

git.kernel.org

bugzilla.redhat.com

securityfocus.com

kernel.org

secunia.com