CVE-2014-3940

The Linux kernel through 3.14.5 does not properly consider the presence of hugetlb entries, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory…

published June 5, 2014

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
18.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

The Linux kernel through 3.14.5 does not properly consider the presence of hugetlb entries, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or system crash) by accessing certain memory locations, as demonstrated by triggering a race condition via numa_maps read operations during hugepage migration, related to fs/proc/task_mmu.c and mm/mempolicy.c.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00274 · 18.8th percentile
Published
2014-06-05T17:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 05 JUN 17:00Z
    The Linux kernel through 3.14.5 does not properly consider the presence of hugetlb entries, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory…
    cvelistv5