CVE-2008-5025

Linux Kernel < 2.6.28 - Memory Corruption

Title source: rule

Description

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.

References (29)

[Vendor Advisory] http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0264.html

[Patch] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d38b7aa7fc3371b52d036748028db50b585ade2e

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00006.html

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00010.html

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://osvdb.org/49863

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/32719

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/32918

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:246

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0014.html

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021230

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-679-1

[Issue Tracking] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470769

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46605

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10470

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32289

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1681

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1687

[Mailing List] http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/10/1

[Mailing List] http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/10/3

[Mailing List] http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/10/6

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Scores

EPSS 0.0091

EPSS Percentile 75.5%

Classification

CWE

CWE-119

Status draft

Affected Products (50)

linux/linux_kernel < 2.6.28

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linux/linux_kernel

linux/linux_kernel

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linux/linux_kernel

linux/linux_kernel

linux/linux_kernel

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Timeline

Published Nov 17, 2008

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026