Denial of Service Vulnerability in xattr File System Code on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3

CVE-2005-0757 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The xattr file system code, as backported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 on 64-bit systems, does not properly handle certain offsets, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via certain actions on an ext3 file system with extended attributes enabled.

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