CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-3363
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-05-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.1 MEDIUM — AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The setup_cifs_sb function in fs/cifs/connect.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not properly handle DFS referrals, which allows remote CIFS servers to cause a denial of service (system crash) by placing a referral at the root of a share.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.39)
• redhat enterprise linux 4.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39 Broken Link
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=70945643722ffeac779d2529a348f99567fa5c33 git.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/14/12 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738291 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/70945643722ffeac779d2529a348f99567fa5c33 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39 Broken Link
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=70945643722ffeac779d2529a348f99567fa5c33 git.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/14/12 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738291 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/70945643722ffeac779d2529a348f99567fa5c33 Patch, Third Party Advisory