CVE-2014-8172 (GCVE-0-2014-8172)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-03-16 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 13:10
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Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2013-11-09 00:00
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