{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "cve@mitre.org", "ID": "CVE-2014-3940", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "n/a", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "n/a" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "n/a" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "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." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1104097", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1104097" }, { "name": "59011", "refsource": "SECUNIA", "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/59011" }, { "name": "[linux-kernel] 20140318 [PATCH RESEND -mm 1/2] mm: add !pte_present() check on existing hugetlb_entry callbacks", "refsource": "MLIST", "url": "https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/18/784" }, { "name": "https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/15000/600/sol15685.html", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/15000/600/sol15685.html" }, { "name": "RHSA-2015:0290", "refsource": "REDHAT", "url": "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0290.html" }, { "name": "[oss-security] 20140602 CVE-2014-3940 - Linux kernel - missing check during hugepage migration", "refsource": "MLIST", "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/02/5" }, { "name": "67786", "refsource": "BID", "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67786" }, { "name": "61310", "refsource": "SECUNIA", "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/61310" }, { "name": "RHSA-2015:1272", "refsource": "REDHAT", "url": "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1272.html" } ] } }