UDF Filesystem Image Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2014-9729 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The udf_read_inode function in fs/udf/inode.c in the Linux kernel before 3.18.2 does not ensure a certain data-structure size consistency, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted UDF filesystem image.

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