CVE-2014-9322
arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S in the Linux kernel before 3.17.5 does not properly handle faults associated with the Stack Segment (SS)…
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 1.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 25% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S in the Linux kernel before 3.17.5 does not properly handle faults associated with the Stack Segment (SS) segment register, which allows local users to gain privileges by triggering an IRET instruction that leads to access to a GS Base address from the wrong space.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 2 Exploit-DB entries for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits3
Exploit-DB2 entries
- Linux Kernel - 'BadIRET' Local Privilege Escalation (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 44205local, linuxpublished 24 Jul 2017Not verified
- Linux Kernel 3.17.5 - IRET Instruction #SS Fault Handling Crash (PoC) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 36266dos, linux_x86-64published 4 Mar 2015Not verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 36266 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
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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 | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.5% · top 25% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
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- USN-2491-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- HPSBGN03285 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2015:0736 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.17.5 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172806 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:0009 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- HPSBGN03282 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- https://help.joyent.com/entries/98788667-Security-Advisory-ZDI-CAN-3263-ZDI-CAN-3284-and-ZDI-CAN-3364-Vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-16-170 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:0566 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2014:2008 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6f442be2fb22be02cafa606f1769fa1e6f894441 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 62336 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6f442be2fb22be02cafa606f1769fa1e6f894441 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-04-02.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2014:1998 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 36266 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- RHSA-2014:2028 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2014:2031 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 115919 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20141215 Linux kernel: multiple x86_64 vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2015:0812 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_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-2014-9147 (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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