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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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2014-06-05T17:00:00

Updated: 2016-12-22T18:57:01

Reserved: 2014-06-02T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2014-3940

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2014-06-05T17:55:07.573

Modified: 2021-07-15T19:16:09.750


Link: CVE-2014-3940

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