CVE-2014-3940
Published Jun 5, 2014
Last updated 3 years ago
Overview
- 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.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 4
- Impact score
- 6.9
- Exploitability score
- 1.9
- Vector string
- AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-362
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