CVE-2014-1425 Privilege escalation in n/a

What is CVE-2014-1425?

CVE-2014-1425 is a low-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 7 Jan 2015. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

cmanager 0.32 does not properly enforce nesting when modifying cgroup properties, which allows local users to set cgroup values for all cgroups via unspecified vectors.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-1425?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Linuxcontainers Cgmanager.

How do I fix CVE-2014-1425?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2014-1425 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-1425 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-3cwq-36p8-jfpc, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-1425, USN-2451-1.