CVE-2014-3940

Linux kernel <3.14.5 - Memory Corruption

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (9)

Core 9
Core References
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1104097
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/59011
Various Sources mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/18/784
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0290.html
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/02/5
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67786
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/61310
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1272.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0027
EPSS Percentile 19.1%

Details

CWE
CWE-362
Status published
Products (8)
linux/linux_kernel 3.14 (9 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 3.14.1
linux/linux_kernel 3.14.2
linux/linux_kernel 3.14.3
linux/linux_kernel 3.14.4
linux/linux_kernel < 3.14.5
redhat/enterprise_linux 6.0
redhat/enterprise_mrg 2.0
Published Jun 05, 2014
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026