UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9728

    Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9728

    UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9728

    Published: 31 Dec 2014Last Modified: 28 Oct 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-9728
    Aliases:
    USN-2517-1
    USN-2518-1
    USN-2541-1

    Summary:

    Details: The UDF filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.18.2 does not validate certain lengths, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read and system crash) via a crafted filesystem image, related to fs/udf/inode.c and fs/udf/symlink.c.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9728, https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e159332b9af4b04d882dbcfe1bb0117f0a6d4b58, https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e237ec37ec154564f8690c5bd1795339955eeef9, https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a1d47b262952a45aae62bd49cfaf33dd76c11a2c, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/02/7, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2517-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2518-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2541-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2542-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2543-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2544-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9728

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.13.0-48.80

    Affected versions

    3.11.0-12.19

    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
    UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9728 | CVE-DB