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