CVE-2014-4171

mm/shmem.c in the Linux kernel through 3.15.1 does not properly implement the interaction between range notification and hole punching, which allows local users to cause a denial of service imutex hold by using the mmap system call to access a hole, as demonstrated by interfering with intended...

CVE-2008-3534

CVE-2008-3534 affects the Linux kernel tmpfs implementation (shmem.c: shmem_delete_inode). A local attacker could crash the system by a specific sequence of file create/remove/overwrite operations, linked to allocation of “useless pages” and improper maintenance of i_blocks. Public advisories con...