CVE-2009-0269 Integer overflow in n/a

What is CVE-2009-0269?

CVE-2009-0269 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 26 Jan 2009. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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: CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-0269?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel, Opensuse Opensuse.

How do I fix CVE-2009-0269?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2009-0269 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-0269 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-g553-6vg2-rpm6.