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.
                
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 MITRE
                        MITRE
                    Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2014-12-17T11:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-06T13:40:25.229Z
Reserved: 2014-12-07T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2014-9322
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 NVD
                        NVD
                    Status : Deferred
Published: 2014-12-17T11:59:02.383
Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837
Link: CVE-2014-9322
 Redhat
                        Redhat
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