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CVE-2010-2248

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2010-09-07 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

fs/cifs/cifssmb.c in the CIFS implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.34-rc4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via an SMB response packet with an invalid CountHigh value, as demonstrated by a response from an OS/2 server, related to the CIFSSMBWrite and CIFSSMBWrite2 functions.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-20

References