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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References | () http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0290.html - | |
References | () http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1272.html - | |
References | () http://secunia.com/advisories/59011 - | |
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References | () http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/02/5 - | |
References | () http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67786 - | |
References | () https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1104097 - | |
References | () https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/18/784 - | |
References | () https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/15000/600/sol15685.html - |
Information
Published : 2014-06-05 17:55
Updated : 2024-11-21 02:09
NVD link : CVE-2014-3940
Mitre link : CVE-2014-3940
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2014-3940
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Products Affected
redhat
- enterprise_mrg
- enterprise_linux
linux
- linux_kernel
CWE
CWE-362
Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')