CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-0038

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2012-05-17 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-05-17
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-190

Description

Integer overflow in the xfs_acl_from_disk function in fs/xfs/xfs_acl.c in the Linux kernel before 3.1.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via a filesystem with a malformed ACL, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 3.1.9)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness

References