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CVE-2014-9731
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…
Low2.1EPSS 0.42%
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- redhat
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low2.1 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.42% · top 63% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.1.
Weakness
Affected products
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References (12)
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-07-01 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2015:1611 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0e5cc9a40ada6046e6bc3bdfcd0c0d7e4b706b14 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2015:1324 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:1382 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.18.2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1228220 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0e5cc9a40ada6046e6bc3bdfcd0c0d7e4b706b14 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2015:1224 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2015:1592 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150603 CVE request Linux kernel: udf: information leakage when reading symlink (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 75001 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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