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Tracker / CVE-2009-0269

CVE-2009-0269

Medium 4.9

fs/ecryptfs/inode.c in the eCryptfs subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (fault or memory corruption), or possibly have unspecified other impact, via a readlink call that results in an error, leading to use of a -1 return value as an array index.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel · … → 2.6.28.1
opensuse opensuse

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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