CVE-2014-8172
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Mar 16, 2015
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 10, 2014
Description
The filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.13 performs certain operations on lists of files with an inappropriate locking approach, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (soft lockup or system crash) via unspecified use of Asynchronous I/O (AIO) operations.
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
- [oss-security] 20150309 CVE-2014-8172mailing-list
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eee5cc2702929fd41cce28058dc6d6717f723f87
- RHSA-2015:0694vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2015:0290vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198503
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/eee5cc2702929fd41cce28058dc6d6717f723f87
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