CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2008-3275
The (1) real_lookup and (2) __lookup_hash functions in fs/namei.c in the vfs implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.25.15 do not prevent creation of a child dentry for a deleted (aka S_DEAD) directory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service ("overflow" of the UBIFS orphan area) via a series of attempted file creations within deleted directories.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 43% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-120
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- debian:debian_linux
- linux:linux_kernel
- suse:suse_linux_enterprise_desktop
- suse:suse_linux_enterprise_server
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d70b67c8bc72ee23b55381bd6a884f4796692f77
- http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.25.15
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00003.html
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/2/83