CVE-2009-0269 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git;a=commit;h=a17d5232de7b53d34229de79ec22f4bb04adb7e4 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00003.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00000.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00001.html http://secunia.com/advisories/33758 http://secunia.com/advisories/34394 http://secunia.com/advisories/34502 http://secunia.com/advisories/34981 http://secunia.com/advisories/35390 http://secunia.com/advisories/35394 http://secunia.com/advisories/37471 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1749 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1787 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.28.1 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:118 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0326.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0360.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507985/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33412 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-751-1 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3316 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48188 https://lists.launchpad.net/ecryptfs-devel/msg00010.html https://lists.launchpad.net/ecryptfs-devel/msg00011.html https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A8169 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A8944