CVE-2014-6418

Severity

71%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

115%

net/ceph/auth_x.c in Ceph, as used in the Linux kernel before 3.16.3, does not properly validate auth replies, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted data from the IP address of a Ceph Monitor.

net/ceph/auth_x.c in Ceph, as used in the Linux kernel before 3.16.3, does not properly validate auth replies, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted data from the IP address of a Ceph Monitor.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.1. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

First reported 10 years ago

2014-09-28 10:55:00

Last updated 10 years ago

2014-10-24 07:28:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel 3.16.0

3.16.0

Linux Kernel 3.16.1

3.16.1

Linux Kernel

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c27a3e4d667fdcad3db7b104f75659478e0c68d8

Exploit

http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/8979

Exploit

http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/9561

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.16.3

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

[oss-security] 20140915 Re: CVE Request: libceph auth token overflow / Linux kernel

USN-2376-1

USN-2377-1

USN-2378-1

USN-2379-1

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1142073

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c27a3e4d667fdcad3db7b104f75659478e0c68d8

Exploit

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