CVE ID:	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.
Test IDs:	None available
Cross References:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-8172 RHSA-2015:0290 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0290.html RHSA-2015:0694 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0694.html [oss-security] 20150309 CVE-2014-8172 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/09/3 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eee5cc2702929fd41cce28058dc6d6717f723f87 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eee5cc2702929fd41cce28058dc6d6717f723f87 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198503 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198503 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/eee5cc2702929fd41cce28058dc6d6717f723f87 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/eee5cc2702929fd41cce28058dc6d6717f723f87