Security Advisory

CVE-2020-14314

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2020-09-15 00:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-04 12:39:36
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

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.