CVEs-PoC/2014/CVE-2014-8172.md

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.

POC

Reference

• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eee5cc2702929fd41cce28058dc6d6717f723f87

Github

• https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cve-scores