CVE-2008-5025: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the hfs_cat_find_brec function in fs/hfs/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 hfs filesystem image with an invalid catalog namelength field, a related issue to CVE-2008-4933.

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 2008-11-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.