CVE-2014-3940
Medium
Description
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.
SeverityMedium
CVSS4.0
Exploit probability—
Product
Linux Kernel
PublishedJun 5, 2014
First seenJun 5, 2014
How to fix
Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.
Affected products
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| linux linux_kernel | v ≤ 3.14.5, 3.14, 3.14.1, 3.14.2, 3.14.3, 3.14.4 | — |
| redhat enterprise_linux | 6.0 | — |
| redhat enterprise_mrg | 2.0 | — |
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