NVD
- Id
- 32019
- Name
- CVE-2014-3940
- 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.
- Reject
- CVSS Version
- 2
- CVSS Score
- 4
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS Base Score
- 4
- CVSS Impact Subscore
- 6.9
- CVSS Exploit Subscore
- 1.9
- CVSS Vector
- (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
- Pub Date
- 2017-01-19
- Published
- 2014-06-05
- Modified Date
- 2016-12-23
- Seq
- 2014-3940