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Medium severity4.7NVD Advisory· Published Oct 13, 2014· Updated May 6, 2026

CVE-2014-8086

CVE-2014-8086

Description

Race condition in the ext4_file_write_iter function in fs/ext4/file.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17 allows local users to cause a denial of service (file unavailability) via a combination of a write action and an F_SETFL fcntl operation for the O_DIRECT flag.

Affected products

2

Patches

0

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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