Tracker / CVE-2013-1773
CVE-2013-1773
Medium 6.2
Buffer overflow in the VFAT filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.3 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (system crash) via a VFAT write operation on a filesystem with the utf8 mount option, which is not properly handled during UTF-8 to UTF-16 conversion.
Affected products and versions
| linux | linux_kernel |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · … → 3.3 |
| redhat | enterprise_linux |
| redhat | enterprise_mrg |
Analysis
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