CVE-2014-8172

kernel: soft lockup on aio

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.9

CVSS 2.0

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Published · November 9, 2013

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

It was found that due to excessive files_lock locking, a soft lockup could be triggered in the Linux kernel when performing asynchronous I/O operations. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system.

Statement

This issue does not affect the versions of the kernel package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 4.9
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CWE not specified