The security_context_to_sid_core function in security/selinux/ss/services.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.4 allows local users to cause…

Description

The security_context_to_sid_core function in security/selinux/ss/services.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by leveraging the CAP_MAC_ADMIN capability to set a zero-length security context.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.60% · top 52% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.9.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-20 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-20 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (23)

• USN-2135-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• USN-2138-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• USN-2137-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• USN-2141-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• USN-2129-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2172fa709ab32ca60e86179dc67d0857be8e2c98 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• USN-2136-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• USN-2128-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• USN-2140-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20140206 Re: CVE Request: Linux kernel: SELinux local DoS (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• 59262 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062356 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• USN-2139-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• 59309 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 59406 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• USN-2134-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• 65459 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-0771.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• USN-2133-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2172fa709ab32ca60e86179dc67d0857be8e2c98 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.13.4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-3043.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2015:0812 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 09:58 UTC.