CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2009-1046

Published: Mar 23, 2009 | Modified: May 31, 2016
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.7 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The console selection feature in the Linux kernel 2.6.28 before 2.6.28.4, 2.6.25, and possibly earlier versions, when the UTF-8 console is used, allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) by selecting a small number of 3-byte UTF-8 characters, which triggers an off-by-two memory error. NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue crosses privilege boundaries.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.28.2 2.6.28.2
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.28.3 2.6.28.3
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.25 2.6.25
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.28.1 2.6.28.1
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.28 2.6.28

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