Bug 1175235 (CVE-2014-9420)
| Summary: | CVE-2014-9420 Kernel: fs: isofs: infinite loop in CE record entries | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Prasad Pandit <ppandit> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | agordeev, aquini, bhu, carnil, dhoward, esammons, fhrbata, gansalmon, iboverma, itamar, jforbes, jkacur, jonathan, jross, jrusnack, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, lgoncalv, lwang, madhu.chinakonda, matt, mchehab, mcressma, mguzik, nmurray, pholasek, plougher, pmatouse, rt-maint, rvrbovsk, williams |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: |
It was found that the Linux kernel's ISO file system implementation did not correctly limit the traversal of Rock Ridge extension Continuation Entries (CE). An attacker with physical access to the system could use this flaw to trigger an infinite loop in the kernel, resulting in a denial of service.
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Story Points: | --- |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2015-06-23 12:16:27 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 1175243, 1175245, 1175246, 1175248, 1175249, 1175250, 1223787, 1223788 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 1173071 | ||
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Description
Prasad Pandit
2014-12-17 10:57:21 UTC
Statement: This issue affects the versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2. Future kernel updates for the respective releases may address this issue. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is in Production 3 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This issue has been rated as having Low security impact and is currently not planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: -> https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/ Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank Carl Henrik Lunde for reporting this issue. Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1175250] kernel-3.17.8-300.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. kernel-3.17.8-200.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2015:1081 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1081.html This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2015:1139 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1139.html This issue has been addressed in the following products: MRG for RHEL-6 v.2 Via RHSA-2015:1138 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1138.html This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2015:1137 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1137.html |