CVE-2011-2928 (GCVE-0-2011-2928)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-08-29 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 23:15
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The befs_follow_link function in fs/befs/linuxvfs.c in the Linux kernel before 3.1-rc3 does not validate the length attribute of long symlinks, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (incorrect pointer dereference and OOPS) by accessing a long symlink on a malformed Be filesystem.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
9 references
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|---|---|
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/19/5 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://www.pre-cert.de/advisories/PRE-SA-2011-06.txt | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49256 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/19/1 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/519387/100… | mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ |
| http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvald… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF |
| http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8360 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON |
| http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/testi… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Date Public
2011-08-19 00:00
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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