Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's encode_share_access Function

CVE-2011-4324 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The encode_share_access function in fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.29 allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG and system crash) by using the mknod system call with a pathname on an NFSv4 filesystem.

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