CVE-2005-0757

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

The xattr file system code, as backported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 on 64-bit systems, does not properly handle certain offsets, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via certain actions on an ext3 file system with extended attributes enabled.

The xattr file system code, as backported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 on 64-bit systems, does not properly handle certain offsets, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via certain actions on an ext3 file system with extended attributes enabled.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 19 years ago

2005-05-18 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-11 01:30:00

Affected Software

Red Hat Desktop 3.0

3.0

References

18056

18059

DSA-921

DSA-922

RHSA-2005:294

Patch, Vendor Advisory

13680

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11406

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