fkie_cve-2014-3122
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2014-05-11 21:55
Modified
2025-04-12 10:46
Severity ?
Summary
The try_to_unmap_cluster function in mm/rmap.c in the Linux kernel before 3.14.3 does not properly consider which pages must be locked, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by triggering a memory-usage pattern that requires removal of page-table mappings.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 14.04 | |
| debian | debian_linux | 7.0 |
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