CVE-2014-9731 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2014-9731?

CVE-2014-9731 is a low-severity 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 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.18.2 does not ensure that space is available for storing a symlink target's name along with a trailing \0 character, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via a crafted filesystem image, related to fs/udf/symlink.c and fs/udf/unicode.c.

Weakness: CWE-17

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-9731?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2014-9731?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2014-9731 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-9731 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9731, GHSA-x393-p4mh-m9f2, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9731.