CVE-2014-9729 Information

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.

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e159332b9af4b04d882dbcfe1bb0117f0a6d4b58 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/e159332b9af4b04d882dbcfe1bb0117f0a6d4b58