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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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2014-06-05T17:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-06T10:57:18.119Z
Reserved: 2014-06-02T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2014-3940
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2014-06-05T17:55:07.573
Modified: 2024-11-21T02:09:10.690
Link: CVE-2014-3940
Redhat