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Tracker / CVE-2009-1336

CVE-2009-1336

Medium 4.9

fs/nfs/client.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.23 does not properly initialize a certain structure member that stores the maximum NFS filename length, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) via a long filename, related to the encode_lookup function.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · … → 2.6.22.19

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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