CVE-2014-8172 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2014-8172?

CVE-2014-8172 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 16 Mar 2015. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-17

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-8172?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2014-8172?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2014-8172 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-8172 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2022-0185 Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2026-53362 Linux Kernel Unspecified Exploited High 7.8

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8172, GHSA-f8hg-rhq8-h2gr.