CVE-2014-3940

MediumCVSS 4.0/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 4.0/10AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Weakness enumeration

CWE-362

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Jun 5, 2014
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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