| 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, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, 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) | bullseye | 5.10.223-1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 5.10.234-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 6.1.129-1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 6.1.135-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 6.12.27-1 | 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)