CVE-2013-4247
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.
- EPSS
- 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 89% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-189
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1fc29bacedeabb278080e31bb9c1ecb49f143c3b
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.9.6
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/14/10
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=998401
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1fc29bacedeabb278080e31bb9c1ecb49f143c3b