CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-8172
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-03-16
- 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-17
Description
The filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.13 performs certain operations on lists of files with an inappropriate locking approach, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (soft lockup or system crash) via unspecified use of Asynchronous I/O (AIO) operations.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 3.12.17)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eee5cc2702929fd41cce28058dc6d6717f723f87 git.kernel.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0290.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0694.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/09/3 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198503 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/eee5cc2702929fd41cce28058dc6d6717f723f87 github.com
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eee5cc2702929fd41cce28058dc6d6717f723f87 git.kernel.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0290.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0694.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/09/3 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198503 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/eee5cc2702929fd41cce28058dc6d6717f723f87 github.com