CVE-2009-1633

CVE Details

Release Date:	2009-05-28
Impact:	Important	What is this?

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in the cifs subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.29.4 allow remote CIFS servers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) and possibly have unspecified other impact via (1) a malformed Unicode string, related to Unicode string area alignment in fs/cifs/sess.c; or (2) long Unicode characters, related to fs/cifs/cifssmb.c and the cifs_readdir function in fs/cifs/readdir.c.

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

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	7.8
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
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-2009-1211	2009-08-13
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (ocfs2-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL)	ELSA-2009-1211	2009-08-13
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (oracleasm-2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL)	ELSA-2009-1211	2009-08-13
Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel)	ELSA-2009-1106	2009-06-17
Oracle Linux version 5 (ocfs2-2.6.18-128.1.14.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2009-1106	2009-06-17
Oracle Linux version 5 (oracleasm-2.6.18-128.1.14.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2009-1106	2009-06-17