CVE-2013-1773
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...
- Published
- Feb 28, 2013
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Evidence observed
- Dec 9, 2012
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 2.0
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:CLow · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 62.0%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
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.
Sources
1G13 · android · Dec 9, 2012
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