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.

Date published : 2013-08-24

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1fc29bacedeabb278080e31bb9c1ecb49f143c3b

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.9.6