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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY

An attacker can use several vulnerabilities of Linux kernel.

Impacted products: Linux

Severity: 1/4

Creation date: 07/11/2014

DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY

Several vulnerabilities were announced in Linux kernel.

A local attacker can pass too large system call numbers to the
system calls for performance measurement, in order to trigger a
denial of service. [severity:1/4; CVE-2014-7825]

A local attacker who has administration privileges can pass too
large system call numbers to the system calls for performance
measurement, in order to run code with kernel privileges.
[severity:1/4; CVE-2014-7826]

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