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CVE-2014-3940

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: Jun 5, 2014
  • Updated: Apr 13, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2014-3940
  • Severity: Low
  • Exploit:

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 4
  • AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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