CVE-2008-4934 (GCVE-0-2008-4934)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-11-05 14:51 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:31
VLAI
Summary
The hfsplus_block_allocate function in fs/hfsplus/bitmap.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28-rc1 does not check a certain return value from the read_mapping_page function before calling kmap, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted hfsplus filesystem image.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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Date Public
2008-10-23 00:00
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