{"id":"CVE-2014-8159","details":"The InfiniBand (IB) implementation in the Linux kernel package before 2.6.32-504.12.2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 does not properly restrict use of User Verbs for registration of memory regions, which allows local users to access arbitrary physical memory locations, and consequently cause a denial of service (system crash) or gain privileges, by leveraging permissions on a uverbs device under /dev/infiniband/.","modified":"2026-04-16T06:17:15.650673898Z","published":"2015-03-16T10:59:01Z","related":["SUSE-RU-2015:0621-1","SUSE-SU-2015:0581-1","SUSE-SU-2015:0736-1","SUSE-SU-2015:1071-1","SUSE-SU-2015:1174-1","SUSE-SU-2015:1376-1","SUSE-SU-2015:1478-1","SUSE-SU-2015:1487-1","SUSE-SU-2015:1488-1","SUSE-SU-2015:1489-1","SUSE-SU-2015:1491-1"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152747.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00004.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00007.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00008.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00009.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00011.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0674.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0695.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0726.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0751.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0782.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0783.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0803.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0870.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0919.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3237"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73060"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032224"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2525-1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2526-1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2527-1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2528-1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2529-1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2530-1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2561-1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181166"},{"type":"ARTICLE","url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152747.html"},{"type":"ARTICLE","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00004.html"},{"type":"ARTICLE","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00007.html"},{"type":"ARTICLE","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00008.html"},{"type":"ARTICLE","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00009.html"},{"type":"ARTICLE","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00011.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181166"}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}