The UDF filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.18.2...
Vulnerability Description
The UDF filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.18.2 does not ensure that space is available for storing a symlink target's name along with a trailing \0 character, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via a crafted filesystem image, related to fs/udf/symlink.c and fs/udf/unicode.c.
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References
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-07-01
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00021.html
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0e5cc9a40ada6046e6bc3bdfcd0c0d7e4b706b14
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00049.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00011.html
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.18.2
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1228220
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0e5cc9a40ada6046e6bc3bdfcd0c0d7e4b706b14
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00023.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00018.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/03/4
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75001
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