CVE-2014-3940

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...

Race condition

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...

CVE-2014-3940

CVE-2014-3940 affects the Linux kernel up to version 3.14.5, where hugetlb handling during hugepage migration can enable local users to trigger a race condition that may lead to memory corruption or a system crash. The issue is tied to the code paths in fs/proc/task_mmu.c and mm/mempolicy.c and i...

CVE-2014-3940

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...

CVE-2014-3940

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...