Buffer overflow in the hfsplus_find_cat function in fs/hfsplus/catalog.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28-rc1 allows attackers to cause a…

Description

Buffer overflow in the hfsplus_find_cat function in fs/hfsplus/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 hfsplus filesystem image with an invalid catalog namelength field, related to the hfsplus_cat_build_key_uni function.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.9% · top 13% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-119 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-119 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (22)

• 32998 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• MDVSA-2008:234 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=efc7ffcb4237f8cb9938909041c4ed38f6e1bf40 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 33641 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• linux-kernel-hfsplusfindcat-bo(46405) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 32093 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• RHSA-2009:0014 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• 33556 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• DSA-1687 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• RHSA-2009:0264 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• 32918 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 33858 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• USN-679-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11061 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20081103 CVE requests: kernel: hfsplus-related bugs (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• 32510 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 33180 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.28-rc1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 33704 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• DSA-1681 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• SUSE-SA:2009:008 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• SUSE-SA:2009:004 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 10:31 UTC.