CVE-2011-3353

Description

Buffer overflow in the fuse_notify_inval_entry function in fs/fuse/dev.c in the Linux kernel before 3.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG_ON and system crash) by leveraging the ability to mount a FUSE filesystem.

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c2183d1e9b3f313dd8ba2b1b0197c8d9fb86a7ae

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/09/6

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=736761

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c2183d1e9b3f313dd8ba2b1b0197c8d9fb86a7ae

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2.0