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SUSE: CVE-2014-9922: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2014-9922: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
04/04/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/08/2017
Modified
06/21/2018

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-docs

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