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CVE-2020-14314

CVSS v3.1 5.5 (Medium)
55% Progress
CVSS v2.0 2.1 (Low)
21% Progress
EPSS 0.04 % (5th)
0.04% Progress
Affected Products 4
Advisories 35
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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.

Weaknesses
CWE-125
Out-of-bounds Read
CVE Status
PUBLISHED
CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Published Date
2020-09-15 20:15:13
(4 years ago)
Updated Date
2023-11-07 03:17:08
(10 months ago)

Affected Products

Canonical

Debian

Linux

Starwindsoftware

Configuration #1

    CPE23 From Up To
  Linux Kernel 5.8.9 and prior versions cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel <= 5.8.9
  Linux Kernel 5.9.0 Rc1 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.9.0:rc1

Configuration #2

    CPE23 From Up To
  Debian Linux 9.0 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

Configuration #3

    CPE23 From Up To
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:esm
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 20.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:*:*:*:lts

Configuration #4

    CPE23 From Up To
  Starwindsoftware Starwind Virtual San V8 Build12533 for Vsphere cpe:2.3:a:starwindsoftware:starwind_virtual_san:v8:build12533:*:*:*:vsphere
  Starwindsoftware Starwind Virtual San V8 Build12658 for Vsphere cpe:2.3:a:starwindsoftware:starwind_virtual_san:v8:build12658:*:*:*:vsphere
  Starwindsoftware Starwind Virtual San V8 Build12859 for Vsphere cpe:2.3:a:starwindsoftware:starwind_virtual_san:v8:build12859:*:*:*:vsphere
  Starwindsoftware Starwind Virtual San V8 Build13170 for Vsphere cpe:2.3:a:starwindsoftware:starwind_virtual_san:v8:build13170:*:*:*:vsphere
  Starwindsoftware Starwind Virtual San V8 Build13586 for Vsphere cpe:2.3:a:starwindsoftware:starwind_virtual_san:v8:build13586:*:*:*:vsphere
  Starwindsoftware Starwind Virtual San V8 Build13861 for Vsphere cpe:2.3:a:starwindsoftware:starwind_virtual_san:v8:build13861:*:*:*:vsphere