CVE-2009-1336

CVE Details

Release Date:	2009-04-22
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

Description

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.

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	4.9
Vector String:	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Local
Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (kernel)	ELSA-2009-1024	2009-05-26
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (ocfs2-2.6.9-89.EL)	ELSA-2009-1024	2009-05-26
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (oracleasm-2.6.9-89.EL)	ELSA-2009-1024	2009-05-26
Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel)	ELSA-2009-0473	2009-05-07
Oracle Linux version 5 (ocfs2-2.6.18-128.1.10.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2009-0473	2009-05-07
Oracle Linux version 5 (oracleasm-2.6.18-128.1.10.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2009-0473	2009-05-07