CVE-2014-0834 Denial of service in n/a
Attackers can crash the GPFS daemon via crafted arguments to a setuid program, causing denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2014-0834?
CVE-2014-0834 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 4 Feb 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) 3.4 through 3.4.0.27 and 3.5 through 3.5.0.16 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via crafted arguments to a setuid program.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-0834?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Ibm General Parallel File System.
How do I fix CVE-2014-0834?
No fix has been published for CVE-2014-0834 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2014-0834 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-0834 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-6x97-v8v2-5v49.