CVE-2005-3109

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-09-30 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The HFS and HFS+ (hfsplus) modules in Linux 2.6 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (oops) by using hfsplus to mount a filesystem that is not hfsplus.

Affected products

Linux kernel: 2.6.0

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/17141
http://secunia.com/advisories/18056
http://secunia.com/advisories/18510
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-922
http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=945b092011c6af71a0107be96e119c8c08776f3f
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427980/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15049
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-199-1
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10777
http://secunia.com/advisories/17141
http://secunia.com/advisories/18056

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