Security Advisory

CVE-2011-3363

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-05-24 23:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 23:29:56
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The setup_cifs_sb function in fs/cifs/connect.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not properly handle DFS referrals, which allows remote CIFS servers to cause a denial of service (system crash) by placing a referral at the root of a share.