Published: 11/05/2014 Updated: 13/02/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.9 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 437

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

The try_to_unmap_cluster function in mm/rmap.c in the Linux kernel prior to 3.14.3 does not properly consider which pages must be locked, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by triggering a memory-usage pattern that requires removal of page-table mappings.

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Debian Bug report logs - #747166 CVE-2014-0196: pty layer race condition memory corruption Package: linux; Maintainer for linux is Debian Kernel Team <debian-kernel@listsdebianorg>; Reported by: Henri Salo <henri@nervfi> Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 07:00:01 UTC Severity: grave Tags: security Found in versions 3241-2 ...

Debian Bug report logs - #747326 CVE-2014-3122: try_to_unmap_cluster() should lock_page() before mlocking Package: linux; Maintainer for linux is Debian Kernel Team <debian-kernel@listsdebianorg>; Reported by: Henri Salo <henri@nervfi> Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 14:48:02 UTC Severity: important Tags: fixed-upstream, p ...

Several security issues were fixed in the kernel ...

CWE-400 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.14.3 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/57e68e9cd65b4b8eb4045a1e0d0746458502554c https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1093076 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/01/7 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2926 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67162 http://secunia.com/advisories/59599 http://secunia.com/advisories/59386 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2240-1 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=57e68e9cd65b4b8eb4045a1e0d0746458502554c https://nvd.nist.gov https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=747166 https://usn.ubuntu.com/2234-1/

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