Tracker / CVE-2011-4077
CVE-2011-4077
Medium 6.9
Buffer overflow in the xfs_readlink function in fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c in XFS in the Linux kernel 2.6, when CONFIG_XFS_DEBUG is disabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an XFS image containing a symbolic link with a long pathname.
Affected products and versions
| linux | linux_kernel · 2.6.12 → 3.0.11 |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · 3.1 → 3.1.5 |
Analysis
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