CVE-2014-8172

CVSS v2.0 4.9 (Medium)

EPSS 0.04 % (5^th)

Affected Products 1

Advisories 2

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.

Weaknesses

CWE-17: DEPRECATED: Code

CVE Status: PUBLISHED
CNA: Red Hat, Inc.
Published Date: 2015-03-16 10:59:02
(9 years ago)
Updated Date: 2023-02-13 00:44:18
(19 months ago)

Affected Products

Linux

Linux Kernel

Configuration #1

		CPE23	From	Up To
	Linux Kernel 3.12.17 and prior versions	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel		<= 3.12.17