CVE-2014-3940
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3940
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2014-3940.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2014-3940
- Downstream
- Published
- 2014-06-05T17:55:07Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T19:01:27Z
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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 numamaps read operations during hugepage migration, related to fs/proc/taskmmu.c and mm/mempolicy.c.
- References
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- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0290.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1272.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59011
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61310
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1104097
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/02/5
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67786
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/18/784
- https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/15000/600/sol15685.html