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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2011-2928 Detail

Description

The befs_follow_link function in fs/befs/linuxvfs.c in the Linux kernel before 3.1-rc3 does not validate the length attribute of long symlinks, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (incorrect pointer dereference and OOPS) by accessing a long symlink on a malformed Be filesystem.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=338d0f0a6fbc82407864606f5b64b75aeb3c70f2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8360 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/testing/ChangeLog-3.1-rc3 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/19/1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit  Mailing List  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/19/5 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit  Mailing List  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.pre-cert.de/advisories/PRE-SA-2011-06.txt CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/519387/100/0/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49256 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/69343 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2011-2928
NVD Published Date:
08/29/2011
NVD Last Modified:
04/10/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.