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CVE-2014-3940 PUBLISHED

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 numa_maps read operations during hugepage migration, related to fs/proc/task_mmu.c and mm/mempolicy.c.

EPSS 0.04% · 12.6th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
0.04%
12.6th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Ubuntu:14.04:LTSlinux0, 3.11.0-12.19, 3.12.0-1.3

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