CVE-2009-4020
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2009-12-04 21:00
Modified
2024-08-07 06:45
Severity ?
Summary
Stack-based buffer overflow in the hfs subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.6.32 allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via a crafted Hierarchical File System (HFS) filesystem, related to the hfs_readdir function in fs/hfs/dir.c.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-01/msg00005.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00007.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://marc.info/?l=linux-mm-commits&m=125987755823047&w=2
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/38276
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/39742
secalert@redhat.comhttp://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100073666
secalert@redhat.comhttp://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/hfs-fix-a-potential-buffer-overflow.patchPatch
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2005
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2010_23_kernel.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/04/1
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540736
secalert@redhat.comhttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10091
secalert@redhat.comhttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6750
secalert@redhat.comhttps://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0046.html
secalert@redhat.comhttps://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0095.html
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