CVE-2009-4020 Information

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the hfs subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.6.32 allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via a crafted Hierarchical File System (HFS) filesystem related to the hfs_readdir function in fs/hfs/dir.c.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-01/msg00005.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00007.html http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm-commits&m=125987755823047&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/38276 http://secunia.com/advisories/39742 http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100073666 http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/hfs-fix-a-potential-buffer-overflow.patch http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2005 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2010_23_kernel.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/04/1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540736 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10091 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A6750 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0046.html https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0095.html