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CVE-2014-9683 (GCVE-0-2014-9683)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-03-03 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 13:55
VLAI
Summary
Off-by-one error in the ecryptfs_decode_from_filename function in fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c in the eCryptfs subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.18.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and system crash) or possibly gain privileges via a crafted filename.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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Date Public
2014-11-26 00:00
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