CVE-2008-5025
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.
- EPSS
- 3.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 87% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-119
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
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