CVE-2014-9730

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-08-31 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The udf_pc_to_char function in fs/udf/symlink.c in the Linux kernel before 3.18.2 relies on component lengths that are unused, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted UDF filesystem image.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 3.18.1

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e237ec37ec154564f8690c5bd1795339955eeef9
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00023.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00049.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00011.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00018.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00021.html
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.18.2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/02/7
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74964
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1228229
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e237ec37ec154564f8690c5bd1795339955eeef9
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e237ec37ec154564f8690c5bd1795339955eeef9

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