CVE-2008-5025

EPSS 2.9%

Stack-based buffer overflow in the hfs_cat_find_brec function in fs/hfs/catalog.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28-rc1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or system crash) via an hfs filesystem image with an invalid catalog namelength field, a related issue to CVE-2008-4933.

Affected products

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References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d38b7aa7fc3371b52d036748028db50b585ade2e http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00006.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00010.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/10/1 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/10/3 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/10/6 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/10/7 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/11/1 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/11/12 http://osvdb.org/49863 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0264.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470769