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CVE-2011-3363
Published: May 24, 2012
Modified: Aug 6, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
The setup_cifs_sb function in fs/cifs/connect.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not properly handle DFS referrals, which allows remote CIFS servers to cause a denial of service (system crash) by placing a referral at the root of a share.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
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n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
[oss-security] 20110914 Re: CVE request -- kernel: cifs: always do is_path_accessible check in cifs_mount
mailing-list
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738291
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http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39
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