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CVE-2020-14314
medium
Description
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.
References
https://www.starwindsoftware.com/security/sw-20210325-0003/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4579-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4578-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4576-1/
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00034.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00032.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00025.html