CVE-2020-14314
Severity
5.5MEDIUM
EPSS
0.0%
top 94.33%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedSep 15
Latest updateMay 24
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages4 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 9.0, Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 20.04
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
5GHSA▶
GHSA-4vqp-m886-hqhq: A memory out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the Linux kernel before 5↗2022-05-24
OSV▶
linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-raspi, linux-raspi-5.4 vulnerabilities↗2020-10-14
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📋Vendor Advisories
7Microsoft▶
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 c↗2020-09-08