National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-1336

Overview

fs/nfs/client.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.23 does not properly initialize a certain structure member that stores the maximum NFS filename length, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) via a long filename, related to the encode_lookup function.

Impact

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494074

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494074

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1022176

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022176

External Source: BID

Name: 34390

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34390

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2009:1077

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1077.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2009:1024

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1024.html

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20090417 Re: CVE request: kernel: NFS: Fix an Oops in encode_lookup()

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/04/17/2

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20090406 CVE request: kernel: NFS: Fix an Oops in encode_lookup()

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/04/06/1

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.23

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.23

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1794

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1794

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 35160

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/35160

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 35015

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/35015

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 35011

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/35011

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2009:0473

Hyperlink:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0473.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=54af3bb543c071769141387a42deaaab5074da55

Hyperlink:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=54af3bb543c071769141387a42deaaab5074da55