CVE-2014-9731: Linux Kernel

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The UDF filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.18.2 does not ensure that space is available for storing a symlink target's name along with a trailing \0 character, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via a crafted filesystem image, related to fs/udf/symlink.c and fs/udf/unicode.c.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 3.18.1

Published 2015-08-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.