CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-9731

2.1 LOW Published 2015-08-31 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-08-31
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-17

Description

The UDF filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.18.2 does not ensure that space is available for storing a symlink target's name along with a trailing \0 character, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via a crafted filesystem image, related to fs/udf/symlink.c and fs/udf/unicode.c.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 3.18.1)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References