{"id":"CVE-2014-8172","details":"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.","modified":"2025-08-09T19:01:28Z","published":"2015-03-16T10:59:02Z","references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0290.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0694.html"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/eee5cc2702929fd41cce28058dc6d6717f723f87"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198503"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eee5cc2702929fd41cce28058dc6d6717f723f87"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/09/3"}],"schema_version":"1.7.3"}