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Tracker / CVE-2014-3940

CVE-2014-3940

Medium 4.0

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.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · … → 3.14.5
redhat enterprise_linux
redhat enterprise_mrg

Analysis

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