oss-security - Re: CVE request: kernel: cifs: cifs_create() NULL pointer dereference

Openwall GNU/*/Linux - a small security-enhanced Linux distro for servers

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 21:03:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request: kernel: cifs: cifs_create() NULL
 pointer dereference

----- "Eugene Teo" <eugeneteo@...nel.sg> wrote:

> Reported by Eugene Teo. While creating a file on a server which
> supports 
> Unix extensions such as Samba, if a file being created does not supply
> 
> nameidata (i.e. nd is NULL), cifs client can trigger a NULL pointer 
> dereference when calling cifs_posix_open().
> 
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems.cifs/5782
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/579445
> 

Please use CVE-2010-1148

Thanks.

-- 
    JB

Please check out the Open Source Software Security Wiki, which is counterpart to this mailing list.