CVE-2008-4933 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2008-4933 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.8
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 442594 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2009:003, published Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SA:2009:004, published Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SA:2009:008, published Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 18:32:05 2013
CVE page last modified: Wed Sep 11 19:10:33 2024