The filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.13 performs certain operations on lists of files with an inappropriate locking…

Description

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.38% · top 68% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.9.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-17 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-17 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (6)

• [oss-security] 20150309 CVE-2014-8172 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eee5cc2702929fd41cce28058dc6d6717f723f87 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• RHSA-2015:0694 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2015:0290 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198503 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/eee5cc2702929fd41cce28058dc6d6717f723f87 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 13:10 UTC.