Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-headers (opens in a new tab)

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Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-KERNELHEADERS-3979413
published26 Jul 2021
disclosed5 Jun 2020

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Introduced: 5 Jun 2020

CVE-2020-14314 (opens in a new tab) CWE-125 (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-headers package and not the kernel-headers package as distributed by RHEL.

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.