CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-2908

4.9 MEDIUM Published 2009-10-13 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-10-13
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

The d_delete function in fs/ecryptfs/inode.c in eCryptfs in the Linux kernel 2.6.31 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel OOPS) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors that cause a "negative dentry" and trigger a NULL pointer dereference, as demonstrated via a Mutt temporary directory in an eCryptfs mount.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 2.6.31

References