CVE-2009-1633
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.1 · Memory corruption
7.1CVSS HIGH
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)3%
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7b0c8fcff47a885743125dd843db64af41af5a61
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=968460ebd8006d55661dec0fb86712b40d71c413
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=27b87fe52baba0a55e9723030e76fce94fabcea4
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00005.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00007.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00005.htmlAdvisory
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=124099284225229&w=2Advisory
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=124099371726547&w=2Advisory