CVE-2008-4933

medium

Description

Buffer overflow in the hfsplus_find_cat function in fs/hfsplus/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 hfsplus filesystem image with an invalid catalog namelength field, related to the hfsplus_cat_build_key_uni function.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11061

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46405

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2008-4912

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-679-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32093

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0014.html

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/03/2

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:234

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1687

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1681

http://secunia.com/advisories/33858

http://secunia.com/advisories/33704

http://secunia.com/advisories/33641

http://secunia.com/advisories/33556

http://secunia.com/advisories/33180

http://secunia.com/advisories/32998

http://secunia.com/advisories/32918

http://secunia.com/advisories/32510

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0264.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00010.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00006.html

http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.28-rc1

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=efc7ffcb4237f8cb9938909041c4ed38f6e1bf40

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-11-05

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00995