CVE-2014-9922

high
Published 2017-04-04 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
9.3
VIR risk
7.8

Description

The eCryptfs subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.18 allows local users to gain privileges via a large filesystem stack that includes an overlayfs layer, related to fs/ecryptfs/main.c and fs/overlayfs/super.c.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9922

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@android.com — https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/69c433ed2ecd2d3264efd7afec4439524b319121

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@android.com — http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-04-01.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@android.com — http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=69c433ed2ecd2d3264efd7afec4439524b319121

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9922.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed4.0.2-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.0.2-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.0.2-1
debian debiansidfixed4.0.2-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.0.2-1
linux linux-kernelaffected

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.