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CVE-2013-1773

CVE-2013-1773

EPSS 1.0%
Buffer overflow in the VFAT filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.3 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (system crash) via a VFAT write operation on a filesystem with the utf8 mount option, which is not properly handled during UTF-8 to UTF-16 conversion.
Affected products
n/a · n/a
public PoCs found — 2
cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/23248/unverifiedexploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/23248unverified
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References
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0720a06a7518c9d0c0125bd5d1f3b6264c55c3ddhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0744.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0928.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1026.htmlhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=916115https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0720a06a7518c9d0c0125bd5d1f3b6264c55c3ddhttp://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/23248/http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.3.bz2http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/26/8http://www.osvdb.org/88310http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58200