Bug 505672 (CVE-2014-2039)

Summary:	Kernel: s390: crash due to linkage stack instruction (CVE-2014-2039)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component:	Kernel	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	kernel
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2014-03-25 12:03:47 UTC

CVE-2014-2039 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-2039):

arch/s390/kernel/head64.S in the Linux kernel before 3.13.5 on the s390 platform does not properly handle 
attempted use of the linkage stack, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) 
by executing a crafted instruction.

Comment 1 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2014-08-10 21:58:57 UTC

CVE-2014-2039 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-2039):
  arch/s390/kernel/head64.S in the Linux kernel before 3.13.5 on the s390
  platform does not properly handle attempted use of the linkage stack, which
  allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by executing
  a crafted instruction.

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2015-11-14 19:27:08 UTC

the version in question went stable a while ago