Vulnerability CVE-2014-9491
Published: 2015-01-20   Modified: 2015-01-22

Description:
The devzvol_readdir function in illumos does not check the return value of a strchr call, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and panic) via unspecified vectors.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Illumos -> Illumos 

 References:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/27
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99686
https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/d65686849024838243515b5c40ae2c479460b4b5
https://www.illumos.org/issues/5421
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