A memory out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the Linux kernel before 5.9-rc2 with the ext3/ext4 file system, in the way it accesses a directory with broken indexing. This flaw allows a local user to crash the system if the directory exists. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-14314
Reference (s):
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14314
- URL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14314
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5872331b3d91820e14716632ebb56b1399b34fe1
- URL: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5872331b3d91820e14716632ebb56b1399b34fe1
- https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ext4/f53e246b-647c-64bb-16ec-135383c70ad7@redhat.com/T/#u