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CVE-2014-3940

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.0EPSS 0.3%EU EUVD

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.

Key facts

CVSS score
4.0 (v2.0)
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-362
EPSS score
0.3% (20th percentile)
In CISA KEV
No
In EU EUVD
Yes (EUVD-2014-3877)
Published
June 5, 2014
NVD last modified
June 17, 2026
Status
Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-3877 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

  • linux / linux kernel
  • linux / linux kernel
  • linux / linux kernel
  • linux / linux kernel
  • linux / linux kernel
  • linux / linux kernel
  • linux / linux kernel
  • linux / linux kernel
  • linux / linux kernel
  • linux / linux kernel
  • linux / linux kernel
  • linux / linux kernel
  • linux / linux kernel
  • linux / linux kernel
  • redhat / enterprise linux
  • redhat / enterprise mrg

References

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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