CVE-2012-2319
HIGH · CVSS 7.2EPSS 0.4%EU EUVD
Multiple buffer overflows in the hfsplus filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.3.5 allow local users to gain privileges via a crafted HFS plus filesystem, a related issue to CVE-2009-4020.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.2 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 0.4% (34th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-2312)
- Published
- May 17, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-2312 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://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6f24f892871acc47b40dd594c63606a17c714f77
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1323.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1347.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50811
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.3.5
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/07/11
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=819471
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6f24f892871acc47b40dd594c63606a17c714f77
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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