CVE-2014-9922 (GCVE-0-2014-9922)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-04-04 04:54 – Updated: 2024-08-06 14:02
VLAI
Summary
The eCryptfs subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.18 allows local users to gain privileges via a large filesystem stack that includes an overlayfs layer, related to fs/ecryptfs/main.c and fs/overlayfs/super.c.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2014-10-24 00:00
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