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CVE-2014-0181

kernel: net: insufficient permision checks of netlink messages

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

1.2

CVSS 2.0

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Published · April 23, 2014

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

It was found that the permission checks performed by the Linux kernel when a netlink message was received were not sufficient. A local, unprivileged user could potentially bypass these restrictions by passing a netlink socket as stdout or stderr to a more privileged process and altering the output of this process.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 1.2
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CWE not specified