CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-4247
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-08-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-189
Description
Off-by-one error in the build_unc_path_to_root function in fs/cifs/connect.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) via a DFS share mount operation that triggers use of an unexpected DFS referral name length.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.8 < 3.9.6)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1fc29bacedeabb278080e31bb9c1ecb49f143c3b git.kernel.org
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.9.6 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/14/10 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=998401 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1fc29bacedeabb278080e31bb9c1ecb49f143c3b Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1fc29bacedeabb278080e31bb9c1ecb49f143c3b git.kernel.org
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.9.6 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/14/10 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=998401 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1fc29bacedeabb278080e31bb9c1ecb49f143c3b Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory