CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-14385

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2020-09-15 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-09-15
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.7 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-131

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel before 5.9-rc4. A failure of the file system metadata validator in XFS can cause an inode with a valid, user-creatable extended attribute to be flagged as corrupt. This can lead to the filesystem being shutdown, or otherwise rendered inaccessible until it is remounted, leading to a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 5.9.0) • linux linux kernel 5.9.0 • canonical ubuntu linux 18.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 20.04 • debian debian linux 9.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-131 Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size weakness

References