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CVE-2008-4934

Description

The hfsplus_block_allocate function in fs/hfsplus/bitmap.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28-rc1 does not check a certain return value from the read_mapping_page function before calling kmap, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted hfsplus filesystem image.


Affected Package


OS OS Version Package Name Package Version
ubuntu 06.06 linux-source-2.6.15 2.6.15-53.74
ubuntu 07.10 linux-source-2.6.22 2.6.22-16.60
ubuntu 08.04 linux 2.6.24-22.45
ubuntu 08.10 linux 2.6.27-9.19

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