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.
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Remediation
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Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
EUVD |
EUVD-2014-3877 | 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. |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-2288-1 | Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-2290-1 | Linux kernel vulnerabilities |
References
History
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-06T10:57:18.119Z
Reserved: 2014-06-02T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2014-3940
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Status : Modified
Published: 2014-06-05T17:55:07.573
Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220
Link: CVE-2014-3940
OpenCVE Enrichment
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Weaknesses
EUVD
Ubuntu USN