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CVE-2014-0203

Published: 23/06/2014 Updated: 13/02/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.9 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 437
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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Vulnerability Summary

The __do_follow_link function in fs/namei.c in the Linux kernel prior to 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.

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Red Hat: CVE-2014-0203
The __do_follow_link function in fs/nameic in the Linux kernel before 2633 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

CWE-416https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/86acdca1b63e6890540fa19495cfc708beff3d8bhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1094363http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.33http://secunia.com/advisories/59406http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-0771.htmlhttp://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-3043.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/59309http://secunia.com/advisories/59262http://secunia.com/advisories/59560http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68125http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=86acdca1b63e6890540fa19495cfc708beff3d8bhttps://nvd.nist.govhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/2333-1/
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