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DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3940

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3940 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.5 HIGH

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS v4.0
7.5
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:11linux0, 0, 0
Debian:14linux0, 0, 0
Debian:12linux0, 0, 0
Debian:13linux0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Jun 5, 2014 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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