CVE-2014-3940 (GCVE-0-2014-3940)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2014-06-05 17:00
Modified
2024-08-06 10:57
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
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