CVE-2013-1848 kernel: ext3: format string issues

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

fs/ext3/super.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.4 uses incorrect arguments to functions in certain circumstances related to printk input, which allows local users to conduct format-string attacks and possibly gain privileges via a crafted application.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
  • Red Hat MRG 2 (kernel-rt)

Please note, this issue did not affect the versions of the kernel package as shipped with RHEL 5 because Red Hat did not backport the commit 4cf46b67eb, which introduced this issue.

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