CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.1. It affects Linux. It may be remotely exploitable. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2009-1633
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.1
EPSS
3.03%
Linux
Original NVD Description
Multiple buffer overflows in the cifs subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.29.4 allow remote CIFS servers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) and possibly have unspecified other impact via (1) a malformed Unicode string, related to Unicode string area alignment in fs/cifs/sess.c; or (2) long Unicode characters, related to fs/cifs/cifssmb.c and the cifs_readdir function in fs/cifs/readdir.c.