CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-4020
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-12-04
- 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-119
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in the hfs subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.6.32 allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via a crafted Hierarchical File System (HFS) filesystem, related to the hfs_readdir function in fs/hfs/dir.c.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel 2.6.32
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-01/msg00005.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00007.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm-commits&m=125987755823047&w=2 marc.info
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38276 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39742 secunia.com
- http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100073666 support.avaya.com
- http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/hfs-fix-a-potential-buffer-overflow.patch Patch
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2005 www.debian.org
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2010_23_kernel.html www.novell.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/04/1 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540736 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10091 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6750 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0046.html rhn.redhat.com
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0095.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-01/msg00005.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00007.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm-commits&m=125987755823047&w=2 marc.info
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38276 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39742 secunia.com
- http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100073666 support.avaya.com
- http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/hfs-fix-a-potential-buffer-overflow.patch Patch
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2005 www.debian.org
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2010_23_kernel.html www.novell.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/04/1 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540736 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10091 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6750 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0046.html rhn.redhat.com
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0095.html rhn.redhat.com