CVE-2014-8133

Published December 17th, 2014

View on NVD ↗

CVSS v3

N/A

CVSS v2

2.1

LOW

Affected

PROJECT

Description

arch/x86/kernel/tls.c in the Thread Local Storage (TLS) implementation in the Linux kernel through 3.18.1 allows local users to bypass the espfix protection mechanism, and consequently makes it easier for local users to bypass the ASLR protection mechanism, via a crafted application that makes a set_thread_area system call and later reads a 16-bit value.

torvalds/linux

Linux kernel source tree

GitHub

237K