DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3940

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-3940
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3940.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3940
Upstream
Published
2014-06-05T17:55:07Z
Modified
2025-09-25T00:41:54.406950Z
Summary
[none]
Details

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

Affected packages

Debian:11 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.14.7-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Debian:12 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.14.7-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Debian:13 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.14.7-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Debian:14 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.14.7-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "low"
}