Bug 247574

Summary:	Kernel: <2.6.28-rc1 buffer overflow hfs_cat_find_brec() in fs/hfs/catalog.c (CVE-2008-5025)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Stefan Behte (RETIRED) <craig>
Component:	Kernel	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	hardened-kernel+disabled, kernel
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git;a=commit;h=d38b7aa7fc3371b52d036748028db50b585ade2e
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Stefan Behte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-11-19 12:28:39 UTC

CVE-2008-5025 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-5025):
  Stack-based buffer overflow in the hfs_cat_find_brec function in
  fs/hfs/catalog.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28-rc1 allows
  attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or system
  crash) via an hfs filesystem image with an invalid catalog namelength
  field, a related issue to CVE-2008-4933.

Comment 1 Stefan Behte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-11-19 12:32:05 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 246710 ***