CVE-2012-0038: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in the xfs_acl_from_disk function in fs/xfs/xfs_acl.c in the Linux kernel before 3.1.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via a filesystem with a malformed ACL, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 3.1.9 (fixed in 3.1.9)

Published 2012-05-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.