CVE-2014-2673

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel performed forking inside of a transaction. A local, unprivileged user on a PowerPC system that supports transactional memory could use this flaw to crash the system.

This issue does not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 because we do not provide support for Transactional Memory on Power PC architecture.

This issue does not affect Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 because we do not support Power PC architecture.

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