CVE-2005-0757: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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
Published 2005-05-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.