CVE-2014-6417

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

Publication date:

28/09/2014

Last modified:

12/04/2025

Description

net/ceph/auth_x.c in Ceph, as used in the Linux kernel before 3.16.3, does not properly consider the possibility of kmalloc failure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long unencrypted auth ticket.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

7.80

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::		3.4.105 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	3.5 (including)	3.10.55 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	3.11 (including)	3.12.29 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	3.13 (including)	3.14.19 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	3.15 (including)	3.16.3 (excluding)

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2014-6417

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools