CVE-2011-4077 (GCVE-0-2011-4077)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-01-27 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 23:53
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Summary
Buffer overflow in the xfs_readlink function in fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c in XFS in the Linux kernel 2.6, when CONFIG_XFS_DEBUG is disabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an XFS image containing a symbolic link with a long pathname.
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CWE
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2011-10-18 00:00
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