CVE-2009-4131 (GCVE-0-2009-4131)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-12-13 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 06:54
VLAI
Summary
The EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT (aka move extents) ioctl implementation in the ext4 filesystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32-git6 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a crafted request, related to insufficient checks for file permissions.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544471 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/12/9/255 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snaps… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tytso/e… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-869-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://secunia.com/advisories/37686 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/37658 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3468 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/11/linux_ker… x_refsource_MISC
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-an… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://secunia.com/advisories/38017 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37277 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Date Public
2009-12-09 00:00
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