CVE-2014-3940

CVSS V2 Medium 4 CVSS V3 None
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2014-3940
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2014-06-05T17:55:07
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2021-07-15T19:16:09
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-362 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/362.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_mrg:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 3.14.5
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.14:-:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.14:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.14:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.14:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.14:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.14:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.14:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.14:rc7:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.14:rc8:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.14.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.14.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.14.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.14.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • HIGH
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Base Score
  • 4
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1.9
  • Impact Score
  • 6.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/02/5
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1104097
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/18/784
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67786
http://secunia.com/advisories/59011
https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/15000/600/sol15685.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/61310
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0290.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1272.html
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3940
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3940
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 07:07:01 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-01 23:23:14 2014-06-05T17:55Z 2014-06-05T17:55:07 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-01 23:23:14 2021-07-15T19:16:09 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-01 23:23:14 Modified Vulnerability Status updated