CVE-2011-2928
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Aug 29, 2011
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Jul 27, 2011
Description
The befs_follow_link function in fs/befs/linuxvfs.c in the Linux kernel before 3.1-rc3 does not validate the length attribute of long symlinks, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (incorrect pointer dereference and OOPS) by accessing a long symlink on a malformed Be filesystem.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- [oss-security] 20110819 Re: CVE request: Linux: ZERO_SIZE_PTR dereference for long symlinks in Be FSmailing-list
- http://www.pre-cert.de/advisories/PRE-SA-2011-06.txt
- 49256vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20110819 CVE request: Linux: ZERO_SIZE_PTR dereference for long symlinks in Be FSmailing-list
- 20110819 [PRE-SA-2011-06] Linux kernel: ZERO_SIZE_PTR dereference for long symlinks in Be FSmailing-list
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=338d0f0a6fbc82407864606f5b64b75aeb3c70f2
- linux-kernel-be-dos(69343)vdb-entry
- 8360third-party-advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/testing/ChangeLog-3.1-rc3
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