Vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux

CVE-2005-0757

The xattr file system code, as backported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 on 64-bit systems, does not properly handle certain offsets, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via certain actions on an ext3 file system with extended attributes enabled.

EPSS: 0.004 (30.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

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