cve/2012/CVE-2012-5375.md

CVE-2012-5375

Description

The CRC32C feature in the Btrfs implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.8-rc1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (prevention of file creation) by leveraging the ability to write to a directory important to the victim, and creating a file with a crafted name that is associated with a specific CRC32C hash value.

POC

Reference

• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1944-1
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1946-1
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2017-1

Github

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