UBUNTU-CVE-2014-2673

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2014-2673

    Published: 1 Apr 2014Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-2673

    Summary:

    Details: The arch_dup_task_struct function in the Transactional Memory (TM) implementation in arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.7 on the powerpc platform does not properly interact with the clone and fork system calls, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (Program Check and system crash) via certain instructions that are executed with the processor in the Transactional state.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-2673, http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=621b5060e823301d0cba4cb52a7ee3491922d291, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2225-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2228-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-2673

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.13.0-18.38

    Affected versions

    3.11.0-12.19

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High