cve/2008/CVE-2008-3528.md

### [CVE-2008-3528](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3528)
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### Description

The error-reporting functionality in (1) fs/ext2/dir.c, (2) fs/ext3/dir.c, and possibly (3) fs/ext4/dir.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.26.5 does not limit the number of printk console messages that report directory corruption, which allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (temporary system hang) by mounting a filesystem that has corrupted dir->i_size and dir->i_blocks values and performing (a) read or (b) write operations. NOTE: there are limited scenarios in which this crosses privilege boundaries.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html

#### Github
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