CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2014-6417

Published: Sep 28, 2014 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.8 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux * 3.4.105 (excluding)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.5 (including) 3.10.55 (excluding)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.11 (including) 3.12.29 (excluding)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.13 (including) 3.14.19 (excluding)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.15 (including) 3.16.3 (excluding)

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