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CVE-2014-9728 (GCVE-0-2014-9728)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-08-31 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 13:55
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Summary
The UDF filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public
2014-12-19 00:00
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