DEBIAN-CVE-2013-1773

Advisory lineage Upstream: 1 Downstream: 1
Upstream
CVE-2013-1773
Downstream
DSA-2668-1
Published: 28 Feb 2013, 19:55
Last modified:28 Apr 2026, 20:12

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
minimal
0/100
CVSS Score
No data
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

28 Feb 2013, 19:55
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
28 Apr 2026, 20:12
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

Buffer overflow in the VFAT filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.3 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (system crash) via a VFAT write operation on a filesystem with the utf8 mount option, which is not properly handled during UTF-8 to UTF-16 conversion.

Affected Systems

  • debian•linux

    < 3.2.15-1 | < 3.2.15-1 | < 3.2.15-1 | < 3.2.15-1

References (1)