CVE-2014-9731

LowCVSS 2.1/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 2.1/10AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-17

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

Timeline

Published: Aug 31, 2015
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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