CVE-2014-2889

Publication date

2014-04-27 00:00:00

Family

redhat

State

PUBLISHED

Description

Off-by-one error in the bpf_jit_compile function in arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c in the Linux kernel before 3.1.8, when BPF JIT is enabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly gain privileges via a long jump after a conditional jump.