CVE-2009-2908

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel version 2.6.31

Description: The issue allows local users to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors that cause a "negative dentry" and trigger a NULL pointer dereference. This can be demonstrated via a Mutt temporary directory in an eCryptfs mount.

Recommendations: For Linux kernel version 2.6.31, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.