CVE-2009-1336 Information

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.

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=54af3bb543c071769141387a42deaaab5074da55 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0473.html http://secunia.com/advisories/35011 http://secunia.com/advisories/35015 http://secunia.com/advisories/35160 http://secunia.com/advisories/35324 http://secunia.com/advisories/35656 http://secunia.com/advisories/37471 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1794 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.23 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/04/06/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/04/17/2 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1024.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1077.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507985/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34390 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022176 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-793-1 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3316 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494074 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10859 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A8495