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CVE-2005-2801

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2005-09-06 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-697

Description

xattr.c in the ext2 and ext3 file system code for Linux kernel 2.6 does not properly compare the name_index fields when sharing xattr blocks, which could prevent default ACLs from being applied.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: 2.6.0

References

• http://acl.bestbits.at/pipermail/acl-devel/2005-February/001848.html
• http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2005/08/msg00238.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17073
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17826
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18056
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18059
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19252
• http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-921
• http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-922
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:219
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_kernel.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-514.html

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