CVE-2008-5025

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-11-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the hfs_cat_find_brec function in fs/hfs/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 hfs filesystem image with an invalid catalog namelength field, a related issue to CVE-2008-4933.

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=d38b7aa7fc3371b52d036748028db50b585ade2e
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00006.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00010.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/10/1
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/10/3
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/10/6
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/10/7
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/11/1
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/11/12
http://osvdb.org/49863
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0264.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/32719

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