CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-4077
6.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-01-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
Buffer overflow in the xfs_readlink function in fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c in XFS in the Linux kernel 2.6, when CONFIG_XFS_DEBUG is disabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an XFS image containing a symbolic link with a long pathname.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.12 < 3.0.11)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.1 < 3.1.5)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2011-10/msg00345.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48964 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/26/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/26/3 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://xorl.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/cve-2011-4077-linux-kernel-xfs-readlink-memory-corruption/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749156 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2011-10/msg00345.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48964 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/26/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/26/3 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://xorl.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/cve-2011-4077-linux-kernel-xfs-readlink-memory-corruption/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749156 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory