Buffer overflow in Linux Kernel
CVE-2009-0269
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.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.9 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.005 (40.5th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 41st percentile — 40.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Linux Kernel
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 7.10, 8.04, 8.10
- Debian Linux — versions 4.0, 5.0
- openSUSE — versions 10.3, 11.0, 11.1
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/35390 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/34502 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0326.html (vendor-advisory, Broken Link)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory, Broken Link)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00003.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List)
- secunia.com/advisories/37471 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0360.html (vendor-advisory, Broken Link)
- lists.launchpad.net/ecryptfs-devel/msg00010.html (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html (Third Party Advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1749 (vendor-advisory, Mailing List)