VDB
CVE-2014-3940
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% · 12.8th percentile
Risk Scores
EPSS Score
0.04%
12.8th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:14.04:LTS | linux | 3.11.0-12.19, 3.12.0-1.3, 3.12.0-2.5 |
Timeline
- Jun 5, 2014 CVE Published
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 20, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 12, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Oct 26, 2022 EPSS Score
- Dec 18, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 9, 2023 EPSS Score
- Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
- Apr 2, 2023 EPSS Score
- May 25, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3940 third-party-advisory
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/18/784 third-party-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1104097 third-party-advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/02/5 third-party-advisory
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2288-1 vendor-advisory
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2290-1 vendor-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-3940 third-party-advisory