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LOW

security flaw

Published May 18, 2005

Description

The xattr file system code, as backported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 on 64-bit systems, does not properly handle certain offsets, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via certain actions on an ext3 file system with extended attributes enabled.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

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Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (11)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner redhat
Published May 18, 2005
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Mar 17, 2005
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date May 18, 2005