CVE-2014-9683

Description

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.

References

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

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

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2542-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2541-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2518-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2517-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2516-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2515-1

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031860

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72643

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

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/17/9

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:058

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

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3170

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1272.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00004.html

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=942080643bce061c3dd9d5718d3b745dcb39a8bc

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3