CVE-2012-2319

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 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: 2012-05-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in the hfsplus filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.3.5 allow local users to gain privileges via a crafted HFS plus filesystem, a related issue to CVE-2009-4020.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 3.3.3

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6f24f892871acc47b40dd594c63606a17c714f77
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1323.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1347.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/50811
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.3.5
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/07/11
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=819471
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6f24f892871acc47b40dd594c63606a17c714f77
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6f24f892871acc47b40dd594c63606a17c714f77
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1323.html

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