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CVE-2009-0748

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-0748 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem implementation (versions 2.6.27 before 2.6.27.19 and 2.6.28 before 2.6.28.7). A local attacker can trigger a NULL pointer dereference and system crash (OOPS) by attempting to mount a specially crafted ext4 filesystem due to insufficient superblock configuration validation. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.9, indicating a low-severity local attack requiring no authentication, leading to a complete loss of availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.6.27CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.27:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.6.27CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.27:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.6.27CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.27:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.6.27CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.27:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.6.27CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.27:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.9MEDIUM

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.51%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
40.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0051 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 3,052 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: kernel-0:2.6.18-164.el5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2009-0748Low

kernel: ext4: ext4_fill_super() missing validation issue

Jan 6, 2009

References

bugzilla.kernel.org / show_bug.cgi
Exploit
git.kernel.org
kernel.org / pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.27.19
kernel.org / pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.28.7
osvdb.org / 52203
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2009-1243.html
secunia.com / advisories/34394
secunia.com / advisories/36562
secunia.com / advisories/37471
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10683
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8526
debian.org / security/2009/dsa-1749
securityfocus.com / archive/1/507985/100/0/threaded
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-751-1
vmware.com / security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/0509
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/3316