CVE-2010-1148

CVE-2010-1148 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The cifs_create function in fs/cifs/dir.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.33.2 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a NULL nameidata (aka nd) field in a POSIX file-creation request to a server that supports UNIX extensions.

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