CVE-2020-14314
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 5.5 Medium
- Published
- Sep 15, 2020
- Updated
- Aug 4, 2024
- Reserved
- Jun 17, 2020
Description
A memory out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the Linux kernel before 5.9-rc2 with the ext3/ext4 file system, in the way it accesses a directory with broken indexing. This flaw allows a local user to crash the system if the directory exists. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 5.5 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | redhat |
Weaknesses
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
kernelLinux Kernel |
|
References
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5872331b3d91820e14716632ebb56b1399b34fe1
- https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ext4/f53e246b-647c-64bb-16ec-135383c70ad7%40redhat.com/T/#u
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14314
- [debian-lts-announce] 20200928 [SECURITY] [DLA 2385-1] linux-4.19 security updatemailing-list
- USN-4576-1vendor-advisory
- USN-4578-1vendor-advisory
- USN-4579-1vendor-advisory
- [debian-lts-announce] 20201030 [SECURITY] [DLA 2420-1] linux security updatemailing-list
- [debian-lts-announce] 20201031 [SECURITY] [DLA 2420-2] linux regression updatemailing-list
- https://www.starwindsoftware.com/security/sw-20210325-0003/
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