CVE-2014-8172

Publication date

2015-03-16 10:00:00

Family

redhat

State

PUBLISHED

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.