CVE-2020-14385 Information

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel before 5.9-rc4. A failure of the file system metadata validator in XFS can cause an inode with a valid user-creatable extended attribute to be flagged as corrupt. This can lead to the filesystem being shutdown or otherwise rendered inaccessible until it is remounted leading to a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00001.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14385 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f4020438fab05364018c91f7e02ebdd192085933 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00025.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/4576-1/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5