CVE-2014-3940
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jun 5, 2014
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Jun 2, 2014
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1104097
- 59011third-party-advisory
- [linux-kernel] 20140318 [PATCH RESEND -mm 1/2] mm: add !pte_present() check on existing hugetlb_entry callbacksmailing-list
- https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/15000/600/sol15685.html
- RHSA-2015:0290vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20140602 CVE-2014-3940 - Linux kernel - missing check during hugepage migrationmailing-list
- 67786vdb-entry
- 61310third-party-advisory
- RHSA-2015:1272vendor-advisory
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