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EUVD-2013-1798 · Published Feb 28, 2013
Buffer overflow in the VFAT filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.3 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (system crash) via a VFAT write operation on a filesystem with the utf8 mount option, which is not properly handled during UTF-8 to UTF-16 conversion.
Technologies
Redhat Enterprise LinuxRedhat Enterprise MrgLinux Linux Kernel
Weaknesses
CWE-119
CVSS scores
- v2.06.2
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
MITRE ATT&CK
InferredWhere this vulnerability fits in an attack
Privilege Escalation
References
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/23248/
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0720a06a7518c9d0c0125bd5d1f3b6264c55c3dd
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0744.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0928.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1026.html
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.3.bz2
Potentially impacted assets
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