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CVE-2014-8172

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Date: March 16, 2015

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.

Language: C

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Related Resources (9)

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0290.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0694.html
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/eee5cc2702929fd41cce28058dc6d6717f723f87
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8172
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8172
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eee5cc2702929fd41cce28058dc6d6717f723f87
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/09/3
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198503
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2014-8172

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CWE-17

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): COMPLETE
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