CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-3275

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2008-08-12 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-08-12
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-120

Description

The (1) real_lookup and (2) __lookup_hash functions in fs/namei.c in the vfs implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.25.15 do not prevent creation of a child dentry for a deleted (aka S_DEAD) directory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service ("overflow" of the UBIFS orphan area) via a series of attempted file creations within deleted directories.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.25.15) • debian debian linux 4.0 • canonical ubuntu linux 6.06 • canonical ubuntu linux 7.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 7.10 • canonical ubuntu linux 8.04 • suse suse linux enterprise desktop 10 • suse suse linux enterprise server 10

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input weakness

References