CVE-2008-4933

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-11-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the hfsplus_find_cat function in fs/hfsplus/catalog.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28-rc1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or system crash) via an hfsplus filesystem image with an invalid catalog namelength field, related to the hfsplus_cat_build_key_uni function.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 2.6.28; 2.2.27, 2.4.36, 2.4.36.1, 2.4.36.2, 2.4.36.3, 2.4.36.4 (+90)

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=efc7ffcb4237f8cb9938909041c4ed38f6e1bf40
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.28-rc1
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00006.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00010.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0264.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/32510
http://secunia.com/advisories/32918
http://secunia.com/advisories/32998
http://secunia.com/advisories/33180
http://secunia.com/advisories/33556
http://secunia.com/advisories/33641
http://secunia.com/advisories/33704

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