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CVE-2014-0203

Published: Jun 23, 2014

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

The __do_follow_link function in fs/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33 does not properly handle the last pathname component during use of certain filesystems, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (incorrect free operations and system crash) via an open system call.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

third-party-advisory

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vdb-entry

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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=86acdca1b63e6890540fa19495cfc708beff3d8b

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third-party-advisory

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third-party-advisory

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http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.33

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http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-0771.html

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third-party-advisory

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http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-3043.html

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1094363

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/86acdca1b63e6890540fa19495cfc708beff3d8b

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