CVE-2014-8172 Information

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.

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=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