6.2 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
30.2%
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.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Debian | 12 | all | linux | <Â 3.2.15-1 | linux_3.2.15-1_all.deb |
Debian | 11 | all | linux | <Â 3.2.15-1 | linux_3.2.15-1_all.deb |
Debian | 10 | all | linux | <Â 3.2.15-1 | linux_3.2.15-1_all.deb |
Debian | 999 | all | linux | <Â 3.2.15-1 | linux_3.2.15-1_all.deb |
Debian | 13 | all | linux | <Â 3.2.15-1 | linux_3.2.15-1_all.deb |