CVE-2009-0269

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2008-12-22
Bugzilla:
481604: CVE-2009-0269 kernel: ecryptfs readlink flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2009-0269 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4.7
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Complete

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
MRG Grid for RHEL 5 Server (kernel-rt) RHSA-2009:0360 2009-03-27
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (kernel) RHSA-2009:0326 2009-04-01

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