CVE-2014-9683

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.

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.

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