CVE-2001-0172: Hans Reiser Reiserfs

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in ReiserFS 3.5.28 in SuSE Linux allows local users to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary commands by via a long directory name.

Affected products

• Hans Reiser Reiserfs: version 3.5.28 only
• Suse Suse Linux: version 7.0 only

Published 2001-03-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.