4.9
CVSSv2

CVE-2014-9728

Published: 31/08/2015 Updated: 22/12/2016
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.9 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 436
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

The UDF filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel prior to 3.18.2 does not validate certain lengths, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read and system crash) via a crafted filesystem image, related to fs/udf/inode.c and fs/udf/symlink.c.

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A symlink size validation was missing in Linux kernels built with UDF file system (CONFIG_UDF_FS) support, allowing the corruption of kernel memory An attacker able to mount a corrupted/malicious UDF file system image could cause the kernel to crash ...