Red Hat Security Advisory 2014-0924-01 - The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. 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.
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