{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2015-02-17T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: buffer overflow in eCryptfs",
    "id" : "1193830",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1193830"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "3.6",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-119",
  "details" : [ "Off-by-one error in the ecryptfs_decode_from_filename function in fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c in the eCryptfs subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.18.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and system crash) or possibly gain privileges via a crafted filename.", "A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's eCryptfs implementation decoded encrypted file names. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges on the system." ],
  "statement" : "This issue did not affect versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 7; and kernel-rt packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2015-07-20T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2015:1272",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.32-573.el6"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "realtime-kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:2"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9683\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9683" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2014-9683",
  "csaw" : false
}