CVE-2014-6417

Description

net/ceph/auth_x.c in Ceph, as used in the Linux kernel before 3.16.3, does not properly consider the possibility of kmalloc failure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long unencrypted auth ticket.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1142072

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2379-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2378-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2377-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2376-1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/15/7

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

http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/9560

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

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c27a3e4d667fdcad3db7b104f75659478e0c68d8

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3