CVE-2014-4699

It was found that the Linux kernel's ptrace subsystem allowed a traced process' instruction pointer to be set to a non-canonical memory address without forcing the non-sysret code path when returning to user space. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges on the system.

Note: The CVE-2014-4699 issue only affected systems using an Intel CPU.

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

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.