CVE-2011-4077
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.9EPSS 0.5%EU EUVD
Buffer overflow in the xfs_readlink function in fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c in XFS in the Linux kernel 2.6, when CONFIG_XFS_DEBUG is disabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an XFS image containing a symbolic link with a long pathname.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.9 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 0.5% (45th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-4028)
- Published
- January 27, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-4028 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- linux / linux kernel
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2011-10/msg00345.html(Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48964(Broken Link)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/26/1(Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/26/3(Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- http://xorl.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/cve-2011-4077-linux-kernel-xfs-readlink-memory-corruption/(Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749156(Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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