CVE-2014-6416 Information

Description

Buffer overflow in net/ceph/auth_x.c in Ceph as used in the Linux kernel before 3.16.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and panic) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long unencrypted auth ticket.

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c27a3e4d667fdcad3db7b104f75659478e0c68d8 http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/8979 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.16.3 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/15/7 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69805 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2376-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2377-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2378-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2379-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1142060 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c27a3e4d667fdcad3db7b104f75659478e0c68d8