| CVE-2014-3940 | Date: (C)2014-06-16 (M)2024-04-17 |
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.
CVSS Score and Metrics +CVSS Score and Metrics -| CVSS V2 Severity: |
| CVSS Score : 4.0 |
| Exploit Score: 1.9 |
| Impact Score: 6.9 |
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| CVSS V2 Metrics: |
| Access Vector: LOCAL |
| Access Complexity: HIGH |
| Authentication: NONE |
| Confidentiality: NONE |
| Integrity: NONE |
| Availability: COMPLETE |
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