CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-8086
4.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-10-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362
Description
Race condition in the ext4_file_write_iter function in fs/ext4/file.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17 allows local users to cause a denial of service (file unavailability) via a combination of a write action and an F_SETFL fcntl operation for the O_DIRECT flag.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 3.17)
• suse suse linux enterprise server 11
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00004.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0290.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0694.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/09/25 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70376 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg45683.html Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg45685.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151353 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/96922 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/8/545 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/9/129 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00004.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0290.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0694.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/09/25 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70376 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg45683.html Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg45685.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151353 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/96922 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/8/545 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/9/129 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory