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.
Published: 2014-06-05
Score: 4.0 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD 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 Ubuntu USN USN-2288-1 Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2290-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
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Linux Linux Kernel
Redhat Enterprise Linux Enterprise Mrg
cve-icon MITRE

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

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2014-3940 - Bugzilla

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