{"id":"CVE-2014-3940","details":"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.","modified":"2026-04-10T03:43:52.846027Z","published":"2014-06-05T17:55:07Z","references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0290.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1272.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/59011"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/61310"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1104097"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/02/5"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67786"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/18/784"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/15000/600/sol15685.html"}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}