CVE-2014-6417

 

Published at: - 28-09-2014 12:55

Last modified: - 19-01-2023 03:46

Total changes: - 3

Description

net/ceph/auth_x.c in Ceph, as used in the Linux kernel before 3.16.3, does not properly consider the possibility of kmalloc failure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long unencrypted auth ticket.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

 

Verification logic

 

Reference

• [oss-security] 20140915 Re: CVE Request: libceph auth token overflow / Linux kernel-Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c27a3e4d667fdcad3db7b104f75659478e0c68d8
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1142072
• http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/9560
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.16.3
• http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/8979
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c27a3e4d667fdcad3db7b104f75659478e0c68d8
• USN-2377-1-Third Party Advisory
• USN-2376-1-Third Party Advisory
• USN-2379-1-Third Party Advisory
• USN-2378-1-Third Party Advisory

 

Keywords

NVD

 

CVE-2014-6417

 

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