CVE-2014-4508

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s system-call auditing support(CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL) for 32-bit platforms. It is vulnerable to a crash caused by erroneous handling of bad system call numerals. This issue occurs during syscall(2) calls if system-call auditing is enabled on the system. This flaw allows an unprivileged user or process to crash the system kernel, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is system availability.

This issue does not affect the versions of the kernel package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 7, 8 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2. This issue affects the version of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Future kernel updates for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 may address this issue.

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