Denial of Service Vulnerability in Btrfs CRC32C Feature

CVE-2012-5375 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The CRC32C feature in the Btrfs implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.8-rc1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (prevention of file creation) by leveraging the ability to write to a directory important to the victim, and creating a file with a crafted name that is associated with a specific CRC32C hash value.

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