cve-2009-1046
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2009-03-23 16:00
Modified
2024-08-07 04:57
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
The console selection feature in the Linux kernel 2.6.28 before 2.6.28.4, 2.6.25, and possibly earlier versions, when the UTF-8 console is used, allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) by selecting a small number of 3-byte UTF-8 characters, which triggers an "off-by-two memory error." NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue crosses privilege boundaries.
References
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