Security Advisory

CVE-2008-7256

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2010-06-03 14:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 11:56:14

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

mm/shmem.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28-rc8, when strict overcommit is enabled and CONFIG_SECURITY is disabled, does not properly handle the export of shmemfs objects by knfsd, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and knfsd crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2010-1643.

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