Published: 17/05/2012 Updated: 15/07/2021

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.9 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 437

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

The cifs_lookup function in fs/cifs/dir.c in the Linux kernel prior to 3.2.10 allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) via attempted access to a special file, as demonstrated by a FIFO.

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Synopsis Moderate: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs,and add various enhancements are now available for Red HatEnterprise Linux 6The Red Hat Security Response Team has rate ...

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or privilege escalation The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2009-4307 Nageswara R Sastry reported an issue in the ext4 filesystem Local users with the privileges to mount a filesystem c ...

Several security issues were fixed in the kernel ...

CWE-20 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.2.10 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798293 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/28/4 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/88d7d4e4a439f32acc56a6d860e415ee71d3df08 http://secunia.com/advisories/48842 http://secunia.com/advisories/48964 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0531.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-05/msg00013.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00021.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0481.html https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:0481 https://nvd.nist.gov https://usn.ubuntu.com/1431-1/https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-2443

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