VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2014-3940
CVSS score4 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.27%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2014-06-05
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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.
Weakness classification
- CWE-362: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')