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CVE-2009-0269

Date: January 26, 2009

fs/ecryptfs/inode.c in the eCryptfs subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (fault or memory corruption), or possibly have unspecified other impact, via a readlink call that results in an error, leading to use of a -1 return value as an array index.

Language: C

Severity Score

6.2

Related Resources (31)

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3316

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00001.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/34394

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-0269

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0326.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00003.html

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0360.html

Url: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.28.1

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8169

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/35390

Url: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48188

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8944

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33412

Url: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a17d5232de7b53d34229de79ec22f4bb04adb7e4

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/37471

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-751-1

Url: https://lists.launchpad.net/ecryptfs-devel/msg00010.html

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-0269

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/34502

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1787

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/33758

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/35394

Url: http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1749

Url: https://lists.launchpad.net/ecryptfs-devel/msg00011.html

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507985/100/0/threaded

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/34981

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2009-0269

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:118

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00000.html

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2009-0269

Severity Score

6.2

Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

Out-of-bounds Write

CWE-787

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	6.2
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.9
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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CVE-2009-0269

Date: January 26, 2009

Language: C

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