CVE-2009-0269 (GCVE-0-2009-0269)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-01-26 15:05 – Updated: 2024-08-07 04:24
VLAI
Summary
fs/ecryptfs/inode.c in the eCryptfs subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (fault or memory corruption), or possibly have unspecified other impact, via a readlink call that results in an error, leading to use of a -1 return value as an array index.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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Date Public
2009-01-18 00:00
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