CVE-2014-1874

medium

Published 2014-02-28 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.9

Description

The security_context_to_sid_core function in security/selinux/ss/services.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by leveraging the CAP_MAC_ADMIN capability to set a zero-length security context.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`3.13.4-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`3.13.4-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`3.13.4-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`3.13.4-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`3.13.4-1`
suse	10	affected
ubuntu	10.04	affected
ubuntu	12.04	affected
ubuntu	12.10	affected
ubuntu	13.10	affected
linux-kernel		affected	`3.13.4`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.