Security Advisory

CVE-2013-4247

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2013-08-25 01:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 16:38:01
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

Off-by-one error in the build_unc_path_to_root function in fs/cifs/connect.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) via a DFS share mount operation that triggers use of an unexpected DFS referral name length.