CVE-2009-0269: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 7.10 only; version 8.04 only; version 8.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 4.0 only; version 5.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: before 2.6.28.1 (fixed in 2.6.28.1)
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 10.3 only; version 11.0 only; version 11.1 only

Published 2009-01-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.