cve/2009/CVE-2009-1336.md

CVE-2009-1336

Description

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.

POC

Reference

• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-793-1
• http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html

Github

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