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CVE-2013-1773

Published: Feb 28, 2013

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

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

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=916115

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vendor-advisory

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[oss-security] 20130226 Re: CVE request - Linux kernel: VFAT slab-based buffer overflow

mailing-list

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0720a06a7518c9d0c0125bd5d1f3b6264c55c3dd

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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0720a06a7518c9d0c0125bd5d1f3b6264c55c3dd

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exploit

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vendor-advisory

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http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.3.bz2

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vdb-entry

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vdb-entry

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vendor-advisory

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