CVE-2014-0203

Description

The __do_follow_link function in fs/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33 does not properly handle the last pathname component during use of certain filesystems, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (incorrect free operations and system crash) via an open system call.

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/86acdca1b63e6890540fa19495cfc708beff3d8b

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68125

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-3043.html

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-0771.html

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=86acdca1b63e6890540fa19495cfc708beff3d8b

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3