CVE-2014-8172

Name	CVE-2014-8172
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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	buster	4.19.249-2	fixed
	buster (security)	4.19.282-1	fixed
	bullseye	5.10.178-3	fixed
	bullseye (security)	5.10.179-1	fixed
	bookworm, sid	6.1.27-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
linux	source	(unstable)	3.13.4-1
linux-2.6	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)

Notes

[wheezy] - linux <no-dsa> (Too intrusive to backport)
[squeeze] - linux-2.6 <no-dsa> (Too intrusive to backport)
Upstream commit: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=eee5cc2702929fd41cce28058dc6d6717f723f87 (v3.13-rc1)