cve-2020-14314
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-09-15 00:00
Modified
2024-08-04 12:39
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
A memory out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the Linux kernel before 5.9-rc2 with the ext3/ext4 file system, in the way it accesses a directory with broken indexing. This flaw allows a local user to crash the system if the directory exists. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14314Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5872331b3d91820e14716632ebb56b1399b34fe1Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00025.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00032.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00034.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-ext4/f53e246b-647c-64bb-16ec-135383c70ad7%40redhat.com/T/#u
secalert@redhat.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4576-1/Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4578-1/Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4579-1/Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.starwindsoftware.com/security/sw-20210325-0003/Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Linux Kernelkernel
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