CVE-2014-9729 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2014-9729?

CVE-2014-9729 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 31 Aug 2015. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The udf_read_inode function in fs/udf/inode.c in the Linux kernel before 3.18.2 does not ensure a certain data-structure size consistency, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted UDF filesystem image.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-9729?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2014-9729?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

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-2014-9729 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-9729 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2026-53362 Linux Kernel Unspecified Exploited High 7.8

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9729, GHSA-w966-936j-53vf, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9729.