CVE-2008-5025
HIGH · CVSS 7.8EPSS 3.0%EU EUVD
Stack-based buffer overflow in the hfs_cat_find_brec function in fs/hfs/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 hfs filesystem image with an invalid catalog namelength field, a related issue to CVE-2008-4933.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 3.0% (87th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-5004)
- Published
- November 17, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-5004 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- linux / linux kernel
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References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d38b7aa7fc3371b52d036748028db50b585ade2e
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00006.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00010.html
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/10/1
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/10/3
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/10/6
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/10/7
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/11/1
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/11/12
- http://osvdb.org/49863
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0264.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32719
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32918
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32998
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33180
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33556
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33641
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33704
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33858
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1681
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1687
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:246
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0014.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32289
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021230
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-679-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470769
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46605
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10470
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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