VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2014-7843

CVSS score4.9 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.37%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2014-11-30
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

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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