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CVE-2009-0269

CVE information

Published

15 years ago

Last Modified

2 months ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Medium

Impact Analysis

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Description

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..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Medium
Base Score
4.9/10
Exploit Score
3.9/10
Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
6.9/10
Confidentiality Impact
None
Availability Impact
Complete
Integrity Impact
None

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- 2.6.28.1
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:11.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:10.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -

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