CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-9683

3.6 LOW Published 2015-03-03 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-03-03
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
3.6 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-189

Description

Off-by-one error in the ecryptfs_decode_from_filename function in fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c in the eCryptfs subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.18.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and system crash) or possibly gain privileges via a crafted filename.

Affected configurations

• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 14.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 14.10 • linux linux kernel (<= 3.18.1)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References