CVE-2014-2673

Name	CVE-2014-2673
Description	The arch_dup_task_struct function in the Transactional Memory (TM) implementation in arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.7 on the powerpc platform does not properly interact with the clone and fork system calls, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (Program Check and system crash) via certain instructions that are executed with the processor in the Transactional state.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	buster	4.19.249-2	fixed
	buster (security)	4.19.269-1	fixed
	bullseye	5.10.158-2	fixed
	bullseye (security)	5.10.162-1	fixed
	bookworm	6.1.15-1	fixed
	sid	6.1.20-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version
linux	source	wheezy	(not affected)
linux	source	(unstable)	3.13.7-1
linux-2.6	source	(unstable)	(not affected)

Notes

[wheezy] - linux <not-affected> (Introduced in 3.4)
- linux-2.6 <not-affected> (Introduced in 3.4)
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=621b5060e823301d0cba4cb52a7ee3491922d291
only affects powerpc architecture