CVE-2009-1336

CVE-2009-1336 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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.

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