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CVE-2012-5375

Published: Feb 18, 2013

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

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Description

The CRC32C feature in the Btrfs implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.8-rc1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (prevention of file creation) by leveraging the ability to write to a directory important to the victim, and creating a file with a crafted name that is associated with a specific CRC32C hash value.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/testing/patch-3.8-rc1.bz2

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http://crypto.junod.info/2012/12/13/hash-dos-and-btrfs/

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9c52057c698fb96f8f07e7a4bcf4801a092bda89

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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9c52057c698fb96f8f07e7a4bcf4801a092bda89

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vendor-advisory

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vendor-advisory

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vendor-advisory

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[oss-security] 20121213 CVE-2012-5374 CVE-2012-5375 Btrfs CRC32C denial of service issues

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