DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9731

    Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9731

    DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9731

    Published: 31 Aug 2015Last Modified: 1 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-9731

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9731

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.16.7-ckt4-1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9731 | CVE-DB