CVE-2014-8086 PUBLISHED

Race condition in the ext4_file_write_iter function in fs/ext4/file.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17 allows local users to cause a denial of service (file unavailability) via a combination of a write action and an F_SETFL fcntl operation for the O_DIRECT flag.

EPSS 0.04% · 10.6th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
0.04%
10.6th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Ubuntu:14.04:LTSlinux-lts-utopic0, 3.16.0-25.33~14.04.2

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