CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4934
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-11-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The hfsplus_block_allocate function in fs/hfsplus/bitmap.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28-rc1 does not check a certain return value from the read_mapping_page function before calling kmap, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted hfsplus filesystem image.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.28)
• debian debian linux 4.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 6.06
• canonical ubuntu linux 7.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 8.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 8.10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=649f1ee6c705aab644035a7998d7b574193a598a git.kernel.org
- http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.28-rc1 Vendor Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0264.html Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32510 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32918 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32998 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33180 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33556 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33858 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1681 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1687 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:234 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/03/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0014.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32096 Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-679-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46327 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11635 Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=649f1ee6c705aab644035a7998d7b574193a598a git.kernel.org
- http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.28-rc1 Vendor Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0264.html Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32510 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32918 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32998 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33180 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33556 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33858 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1681 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1687 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:234 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/03/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0014.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32096 Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-679-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46327 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11635 Third Party Advisory