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CVE-2014-1874

Kernel: SELinux: local denial-of-service

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

4.4

CVSS 2.0

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Published · January 29, 2014

Updated · November 21, 2025

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.

Statement

This issue does not affect the version of the kernel package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

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 · 4.4
AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

CWE not specified