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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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