CVE-2009-0269

CVE-2009-0269 · MEDIUM Severity

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

fs/ecryptfs/inode.c in the eCryptfs subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (fault or memory corruption), or possibly have unspecified other impact, via a readlink call that results in an error, leading to use of a -1 return value as an array index.

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