Buffer overflow in Linux Kernel
CVE-2009-1633
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.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
EPSS: 0.030 (86.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Linux Linux_kernel
- Canonical Ubuntu_linux — versions 6.06, 8.04, 8.10
- Debian Debian_linux — versions 4.0, 5.0
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Broken Link)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Patch, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)