CVE-2008-3528

CVE Details

Release Date:	2008-09-27
Impact:	Low	What is this?

Description

The error-reporting functionality in (1) fs/ext2/dir.c, (2) fs/ext3/dir.c, and possibly (3) fs/ext4/dir.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.26.5 does not limit the number of printk console messages that report directory corruption, which allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (temporary system hang) by mounting a filesystem that has corrupted dir-i_size and dir-i_blocks values and performing (a) read or (b) write operations. NOTE: there are limited scenarios in which this crosses privilege boundaries.

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	2.1
Vector String:	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Local
Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (kernel)	ELSA-2008-0972	2008-11-19
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL)	ELSA-2008-0972	2008-11-19
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL)	ELSA-2008-0972	2008-11-19
Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel)	ELSA-2009-0326	2009-04-01
Oracle Linux version 5 (ocfs2-2.6.18-128.1.6.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2009-0326	2009-04-01
Oracle Linux version 5 (oracleasm-2.6.18-128.1.6.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2009-0326	2009-04-01