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CVE-2008-4933

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2008-11-05 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in the hfsplus_find_cat function in fs/hfsplus/catalog.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28-rc1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or system crash) via an hfsplus filesystem image with an invalid catalog namelength field, related to the hfsplus_cat_build_key_uni function.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-119

References