CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-1046

4.7 MEDIUM Published 2009-03-23 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-03-23
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.7 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-399

Description

The console selection feature in the Linux kernel 2.6.28 before 2.6.28.4, 2.6.25, and possibly earlier versions, when the UTF-8 console is used, allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) by selecting a small number of 3-byte UTF-8 characters, which triggers an "off-by-two memory error." NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue crosses privilege boundaries.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 2.6.25 • linux linux kernel 2.6.28 • linux linux kernel 2.6.28.1 • linux linux kernel 2.6.28.2 • linux linux kernel 2.6.28.3

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References