CVE-2014-8172

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-03-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-17

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.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 3.12.17

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eee5cc2702929fd41cce28058dc6d6717f723f87
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0290.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0694.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/09/3
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198503
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/eee5cc2702929fd41cce28058dc6d6717f723f87
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eee5cc2702929fd41cce28058dc6d6717f723f87
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0290.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0694.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/09/3
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198503
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/eee5cc2702929fd41cce28058dc6d6717f723f87

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