MEDIUM 5.5 Microsoft
CVE-2020-14385
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.
Microsoft Security Update 2020-Sep: 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.
Affected Products
- cm1 kernel 5.4.91-3 on CBL Mariner 1.0
References
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2020-14385
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-14385
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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