Buffer Overflow in VFAT Filesystem Implementation in Linux Kernel

CVE-2013-1773 · MEDIUM Severity

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

Buffer overflow in the VFAT filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.3 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (system crash) via a VFAT write operation on a filesystem with the utf8 mount option, which is not properly handled during UTF-8 to UTF-16 conversion.

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