{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2020-06-05T16:45:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: buffer uses out of index in ext3/4 filesystem",
    "id" : "1853922",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1853922"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "5.5",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-125",
  "details" : [ "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.", "A memory out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the Linux kernel's 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." ],
  "acknowledgement" : "This issue was discovered by Jay Shin (Red Hat).",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2020-12-15T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2020:5441",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_extras_rt:7",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:3.10.0-1160.11.1.rt56.1145.el7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2020-12-15T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2020:5437",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "package" : "kernel-0:3.10.0-1160.11.1.el7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2021-05-18T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2021:1739",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::nfv",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-305.rt7.72.el8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2021-05-18T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2021:1578",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-305.el8"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "kernel-alt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:2"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-14314\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-14314\nhttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5872331b3d91820e14716632ebb56b1399b34fe1\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-ext4/f53e246b-647c-64bb-16ec-135383c70ad7@redhat.com/T/#u" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2020-14314",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "If any directories of the partition (or image) broken, the command \"e2fsck -Df .../partition-name\" fixes it.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}