Race Condition Affecting kernel-bootwrapper package, versions <0:3.10.0-229.el7
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-KERNELBOOTWRAPPER-4512647
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 18 Mar 2014
Introduced: 18 Mar 2014
CVE-2014-3940 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade RHEL:7 kernel-bootwrapper to version 0:3.10.0-229.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2015:0290.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-bootwrapper package and not the kernel-bootwrapper package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.
The Linux kernel through 3.14.5 does not properly consider the presence of hugetlb entries, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or system crash) by accessing certain memory locations, as demonstrated by triggering a race condition via numa_maps read operations during hugepage migration, related to fs/proc/task_mmu.c and mm/mempolicy.c.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67786
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1104097
- https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/15000/600/sol15685.html
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3940
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/18/784
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/02/5
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0290.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1272.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:0290
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59011
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61310