Security Advisory

CVE-2009-1336

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2009-04-22 15:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 05:13:24
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

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.