CVE-2008-4934

Description (CNA)

The hfsplus_block_allocate function in fs/hfsplus/bitmap.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28-rc1 does not check a certain return value from the read_mapping_page function before calling kmap, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted hfsplus filesystem image.

Affected (CNA)

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/32998
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:234
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46327
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0014.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33556
• http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1687
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0264.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32918
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33858
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-679-1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/03/2
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=649f1ee6c705aab644035a7998d7b574193a598a
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32510
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33180
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11635
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32096
• http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.28-rc1
• http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1681

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