Upstream information

CVE-2014-9644 at MITRE

Description

The Crypto API in the Linux kernel before 3.18.5 allows local users to load arbitrary kernel modules via a bind system call for an AF_ALG socket with a parenthesized module template expression in the salg_name field, as demonstrated by the vfat(aes) expression, a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-7421.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 2.1
Vector AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 914423 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Liberty Linux 7
  • kernel >= 3.10.0-327.el7
  • kernel-abi-whitelists >= 3.10.0-327.el7
  • kernel-debug >= 3.10.0-327.el7
  • kernel-debug-devel >= 3.10.0-327.el7
  • kernel-devel >= 3.10.0-327.el7
  • kernel-doc >= 3.10.0-327.el7
  • kernel-headers >= 3.10.0-327.el7
  • kernel-tools >= 3.10.0-327.el7
  • kernel-tools-libs >= 3.10.0-327.el7
  • kernel-tools-libs-devel >= 3.10.0-327.el7
  • perf >= 3.10.0-327.el7
  • python-perf >= 3.10.0-327.el7
 Patchnames:
RHSA-2015:2152

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jan 23 08:26:54 2015
CVE page last modified: Tue Jul 1 12:23:49 2025