CVE-2014-8172
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8172
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2014-8172.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2014-8172
- Downstream
- Published
- 2015-03-16T10:59:02Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T19:01:28Z
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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The filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.13 performs certain operations on lists of files with an inappropriate locking approach, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (soft lockup or system crash) via unspecified use of Asynchronous I/O (AIO) operations.
- References
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- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0290.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0694.html
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/eee5cc2702929fd41cce28058dc6d6717f723f87
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198503
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eee5cc2702929fd41cce28058dc6d6717f723f87
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/09/3