CVE-2014-8159
The InfiniBand (IB) implementation in the Linux kernel package before 2.6.32-504.12.2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 does not…
- 6.9MediumCVSS base score
- 0.42%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 63% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The InfiniBand (IB) implementation in the Linux kernel package before 2.6.32-504.12.2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 does not properly restrict use of User Verbs for registration of memory regions, which allows local users to access arbitrary physical memory locations, and consequently cause a denial of service (system crash) or gain privileges, by leveraging permissions on a uverbs device under /dev/infiniband/.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.9 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.42% · top 63% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.9.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
27
- RHSA-2015:0783 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2015:1491 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- USN-2529-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-2530-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:0695 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2015:1489 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2015:1488 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- USN-2561-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:0751 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:0803 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- DSA-3237 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- USN-2528-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-2527-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:0919 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:0782 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- USN-2526-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2015:1478 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-4066 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 1032224 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 73060 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181166 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-2525-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:0870 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2015:1487 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:0726 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:0674 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2014-8000 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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