CVE-2014-8172

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.

Score

CVSS 2.0 4.9 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2015-03-16

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-17

Affected products

• Linux Kernel (Linux)

References

• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eee5cc2702929fd41cce28058dc6d6717f723f87
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0290.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0694.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/09/3
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198503
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/eee5cc2702929fd41cce28058dc6d6717f723f87