CVE-2014-3122
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.9EPSS 0.5%EU EUVD
The try_to_unmap_cluster function in mm/rmap.c in the Linux kernel before 3.14.3 does not properly consider which pages must be locked, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by triggering a memory-usage pattern that requires removal of page-table mappings.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.9 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-400
- EPSS score
- 0.5% (42th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-3142)
- Published
- May 11, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-3142 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- debian / debian linux
- linux / linux kernel
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=57e68e9cd65b4b8eb4045a1e0d0746458502554c
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59386(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59599(Broken Link)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2926(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.14.3(Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/01/7(Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67162(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2240-1(Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1093076(Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/57e68e9cd65b4b8eb4045a1e0d0746458502554c(Patch, Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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