MEDIUM 5.5 Microsoft

CVE-2020-14314

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.

Microsoft Security Update 2020-Sep: 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.

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Published: 2020-09-08 · Source: Microsoft · Feed updated: 2026-08-21
This medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.5 was published on 2020-09-08 via Microsoft. Affected: cm1 kernel 5.4.91-3 on CBL Mariner 1.0.
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