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
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.1 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.030 (87.0th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 87th percentile — 87.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.030 · newest: 0.030 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Linux Kernel
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 6.06, 8.04, 8.10
- Debian Linux — versions 4.0, 5.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1865 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0111 (Broken Link)
- secunia.com/advisories/35226 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/05/14/1 (mailing-list, Patch, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/37471 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01126.html (vendor-advisory, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8588 (signature, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- git.kernel.org/
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/35656 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)