{"cve":"CVE-2014-3940","nvd":{"published":"2014-06-05T17:55:07.573","modified":"2026-06-17T00:09:10.453","status":"Modified","description":"The Linux kernel through 3.14.5 does not properly consider the presence of hugetlb entries, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or system crash) by accessing certain memory locations, as demonstrated by triggering a race condition via numa_maps read operations during hugepage migration, related to fs/proc/task_mmu.c and mm/mempolicy.c.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":["CWE-362"],"references":["http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0290.html","http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1272.html","http://secunia.com/advisories/59011","http://secunia.com/advisories/61310","http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/02/5"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel","redhat:enterprise_linux","redhat:enterprise_mrg"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T20:33:06.232976534+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2014-3940","score":0.00274,"percentile":0.19837,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}