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CVE-2014-9491 (GCVE-0-2014-9491)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-01-20 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 13:47
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Summary
The devzvol_readdir function in illumos does not check the return value of a strchr call, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and panic) via unspecified vectors.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2015-01-03 00:00
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