CVE-2011-2928: Linux Kernel

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

The befs_follow_link function in fs/befs/linuxvfs.c in the Linux kernel before 3.1-rc3 does not validate the length attribute of long symlinks, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (incorrect pointer dereference and OOPS) by accessing a long symlink on a malformed Be filesystem.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 3.1 (fixed in 3.1); version 3.1 only

Published 2011-08-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.