CVE-2014-2038
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Feb 28, 2014
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Feb 19, 2014
Description
The nfs_can_extend_write function in fs/nfs/write.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.3 relies on a write delegation to extend a write operation without a certain up-to-date verification, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory in opportunistic circumstances by writing to a file in an NFS filesystem and then reading the same file.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- USN-2137-1vendor-advisory
- USN-2140-1vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/263b4509ec4d47e0da3e753f85a39ea12d1eff24
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=263b4509ec4d47e0da3e753f85a39ea12d1eff24
- [oss-security] 20140221 Re: Re: CVE request: Linux kernel: nfs: information leakagemailing-list
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.13.3
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1066939
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