CVE-2014-8173 SUSE CVE security@suse.de SUSE Security Team SUSE CVE-2014-8173 Interim 1 20 2025-05-18T00:11:26Z current 2021-05-30T13:23:57Z 2025-05-18T00:11:26Z cve-database/bin/generate-cvrf-cve.pl 2020-12-27T01:00:00Z CVE-2014-8173 The pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad function in include/asm-generic/pgtable.h in the Linux kernel before 3.13 on NUMA systems does not properly determine whether a Page Middle Directory (PMD) entry is a transparent huge-table entry, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted MADV_WILLNEED madvise system call that leverages the absence of a page-table lock. The CVRF data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0). https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.org/thread/TGDFE2ZE62NVTCXF3ICQYCJ3S7RQZBVD/#TGDFE2ZE62NVTCXF3ICQYCJ3S7RQZBVD E-Mail link for openSUSE-SU-2015:0714-1 https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/ SUSE Security Ratings SUSE Liberty Linux 7 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL kernel-3.10.0-229.el7 kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-229.el7 kernel-debug-3.10.0-229.el7 kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-229.el7 kernel-default kernel-default-base kernel-default-devel kernel-devel kernel-devel-3.10.0-229.el7 kernel-doc-3.10.0-229.el7 kernel-headers-3.10.0-229.el7 kernel-macros kernel-source kernel-tools-3.10.0-229.el7 kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-229.el7 kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.10.0-229.el7 perf-3.10.0-229.el7 python-perf-3.10.0-229.el7 kernel-3.10.0-229.el7 as a component of SUSE Liberty Linux 7 kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-229.el7 as a component of SUSE Liberty Linux 7 kernel-debug-3.10.0-229.el7 as a component of SUSE Liberty Linux 7 kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-229.el7 as a component of SUSE Liberty Linux 7 kernel-devel-3.10.0-229.el7 as a component of SUSE Liberty Linux 7 kernel-doc-3.10.0-229.el7 as a component of SUSE Liberty Linux 7 kernel-headers-3.10.0-229.el7 as a component of SUSE Liberty Linux 7 kernel-tools-3.10.0-229.el7 as a component of SUSE Liberty Linux 7 kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-229.el7 as a component of SUSE Liberty Linux 7 kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.10.0-229.el7 as a component of SUSE Liberty Linux 7 perf-3.10.0-229.el7 as a component of SUSE Liberty Linux 7 python-perf-3.10.0-229.el7 as a component of SUSE Liberty Linux 7 kernel-default as a component of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL kernel-default-base as a component of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL kernel-default-devel as a component of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL kernel-devel as a component of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL kernel-macros as a component of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL kernel-source as a component of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL The pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad function in include/asm-generic/pgtable.h in the Linux kernel before 3.13 on NUMA systems does not properly determine whether a Page Middle Directory (PMD) entry is a transparent huge-table entry, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted MADV_WILLNEED madvise system call that leverages the absence of a page-table lock. CVE-2014-8173 SUSE Liberty Linux 7:kernel-3.10.0-229.el7 SUSE Liberty Linux 7:kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-229.el7 SUSE Liberty Linux 7:kernel-debug-3.10.0-229.el7 SUSE Liberty Linux 7:kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-229.el7 SUSE Liberty Linux 7:kernel-devel-3.10.0-229.el7 SUSE Liberty Linux 7:kernel-doc-3.10.0-229.el7 SUSE Liberty Linux 7:kernel-headers-3.10.0-229.el7 SUSE Liberty Linux 7:kernel-tools-3.10.0-229.el7 SUSE Liberty Linux 7:kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-229.el7 SUSE Liberty Linux 7:kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.10.0-229.el7 SUSE Liberty Linux 7:perf-3.10.0-229.el7 SUSE Liberty Linux 7:python-perf-3.10.0-229.el7 important 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C