CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-1771
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-09-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
The cifs_close function in fs/cifs/file.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and BUG) or possibly have unspecified other impact by setting the O_DIRECT flag during an attempt to open a file on a CIFS filesystem.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.39)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7797069305d13252fd66cf722aa8f2cbeb3c95cd git.kernel.org
- http://marc.info/?l=linux-cifs&m=130204357001849&w=2 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://marc.info/?l=linux-cifs&m=130204730006155&w=2 Third Party Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8367 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/09/2 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=703016 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7797069305d13252fd66cf722aa8f2cbeb3c95cd git.kernel.org
- http://marc.info/?l=linux-cifs&m=130204357001849&w=2 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://marc.info/?l=linux-cifs&m=130204730006155&w=2 Third Party Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8367 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/09/2 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=703016 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory