A memory out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the Linux kernel before 5.9-rc2 with the ext3/ext4 file system, in the way it accesses a directory with broken indexing. This flaw allows a local user to crash the system if the directory exists. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
References
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14314 | Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory |
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5872331b3d91820e14716632ebb56b1399b34fe1 | Patch Vendor Advisory |
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00025.html | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00032.html | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00034.html | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ext4/f53e246b-647c-64bb-16ec-135383c70ad7%40redhat.com/T/#u | |
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4576-1/ | Third Party Advisory |
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4578-1/ | Third Party Advisory |
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4579-1/ | Third Party Advisory |
https://www.starwindsoftware.com/security/sw-20210325-0003/ | Third Party Advisory |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2020-09-15T00:00:00
Updated: 2022-10-11T00:00:00
Reserved: 2020-06-17T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2020-14314
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2020-09-15T20:15:13.213
Modified: 2023-11-07T03:17:08.473
Link: CVE-2020-14314
JSON object: View
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CWE