VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2009-0269

CVSS score4.9 NONE
EPSS probability0.50%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2009-01-26
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

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.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-787

Primary references