CVE-2014-9683

Severity

36%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

81%

Off-by-one error in the ecryptfs_decode_from_filename function in fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c in the eCryptfs subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.18.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and system crash) or possibly gain privileges via a crafted filename.

Off-by-one error in the ecryptfs_decode_from_filename function in fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c in the eCryptfs subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.18.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and system crash) or possibly gain privileges via a crafted filename.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 3.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Linux

First reported 9 years ago

2015-03-03 11:59:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-12-24 02:59:00

Affected Software

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS

12.04

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS (Long-Term Support)

14.04

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.10

14.10

Linux Kernel

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=942080643bce061c3dd9d5718d3b745dcb39a8bc

SUSE-SU-2015:1478

RHSA-2015:1272

DSA-3170

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.18.2

MDVSA-2015:058

[oss-security] 20150217 Re: CVE request: Linux kernel ecryptfs 1-byte overwrite

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html

72643

1031860

USN-2515-1

USN-2516-1

USN-2517-1

USN-2518-1

USN-2541-1

USN-2542-1

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1193830

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/942080643bce061c3dd9d5718d3b745dcb39a8bc

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