CVE-2014-9683: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Low severity, CVSS 3.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Off-by-one error in the ecryptfs_decode_from_filename function in fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c in the eCryptfs subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.18.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and system crash) or possibly gain privileges via a crafted filename.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 14.10 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 3.18.1

Published 2015-03-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.