PT-2015-4025 · Linux+3 · Linux Kernel+3

Published 2014-01-23 · Updated 2023-02-13 · CVE-2014-8172

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.9

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 3.13

Description The issue is related to the filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel, which uses an inappropriate locking approach when performing certain operations on lists of files. This can be exploited by local users to cause a denial of service, resulting in a soft lockup or system crash, via unspecified use of Asynchronous I/O (AIO) operations.

Recommendations For Linux kernel versions prior to 3.13, update to version 3.13 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-17

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-1079

ALT-PU-2014-1537

CESA-2015_0290

CVE-2014-8172

RHSA-2015:0290

RHSA-2015:0694

RHSA-2015_0290

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Linux Kernel

Red Hat

References · 16

• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8172 · Security Note
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0290.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8172 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8172 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8172 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-8172 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0694.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8172 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8172 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0290.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/eee5cc2702929fd41cce28058dc6d6717f723f87 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8172 · Note
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eee5cc2702929fd41cce28058dc6d6717f723f87 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198503 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/09 · Note