CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-3122
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-05-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Description
The try_to_unmap_cluster function in mm/rmap.c in the Linux kernel before 3.14.3 does not properly consider which pages must be locked, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by triggering a memory-usage pattern that requires removal of page-table mappings.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 3.14.3)
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• debian debian linux 7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=57e68e9cd65b4b8eb4045a1e0d0746458502554c git.kernel.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59386 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59599 Broken Link
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2926 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.14.3 Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/01/7 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67162 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2240-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1093076 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/57e68e9cd65b4b8eb4045a1e0d0746458502554c Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=57e68e9cd65b4b8eb4045a1e0d0746458502554c git.kernel.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59386 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59599 Broken Link
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2926 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.14.3 Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/01/7 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67162 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2240-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1093076 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/57e68e9cd65b4b8eb4045a1e0d0746458502554c Patch, Third Party Advisory