CVE-2008-4933: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the hfsplus_find_cat function in fs/hfsplus/catalog.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28-rc1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or system crash) via an hfsplus filesystem image with an invalid catalog namelength field, related to the hfsplus_cat_build_key_uni function.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 2.6.28; version 2.2.27 only; version 2.4.36 only; version 2.4.36.1 only; version 2.4.36.2 only; version 2.4.36.3 only; …

Published 2008-11-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.