CVE-2014-6416
HIGH · CVSS 7.8EPSS 6.2%EU EUVD
Buffer overflow in net/ceph/auth_x.c in Ceph, as used in the Linux kernel before 3.16.3, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and panic) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long unencrypted auth ticket.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 6.2% (94th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-6296)
- Published
- September 28, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-6296 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- linux / linux kernel
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c27a3e4d667fdcad3db7b104f75659478e0c68d8
- http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/8979(Broken Link)
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.16.3(Exploit, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/15/7(Exploit, Mailing List)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69805(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2376-1(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2377-1(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2378-1(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2379-1(Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1142060(Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory)
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c27a3e4d667fdcad3db7b104f75659478e0c68d8(Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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